Notes and Memoranda bearing upon the use of Human Ordure and Human Urine in Rites of a Religious ... Character

Compilation of Notes and Memoranda bearing upon the use of Human Ordure and Human Urine in Rites of a Religious or Semi-Religious Character among Various Nations. By John Gregory Bourke, Captain, Third Cavalry, United States Army. Washington, D. C., 1888.

Foreword
This compilation of notes and memoranda has been printed for distribution among scholars interested in the study of ethnology and anthropology, and not for general perusal.
The Courteous assistance received from Mr. A. R. Spofford, librarian of Congress, and his subordinates, Messrs. Hutcheson, Marsh, Neuhaus, Phillips, Dorsey, Morrison, Key and Chrisfield is gratefully acknowledged, as is also that extended by Hon. Wm. C. Endicott,

Secretary of War; Brigadier General R. C. Drum, Adjutant General U. S. Army; Mr. John Tweedale, chief clerk War Department; Mr. David Fitz Gerald, librarian War Department; and Mr. R. P. Thian, chief clerk Adjutant General's Office.
All papers of this series which relate to the manners and usages of the Indians of the southwestern portion of our territory, especially those concerning the urine dances, phallic dances, snake dances of the Zunis, Mokis, and other Pueblos; the Navajos of New Mexico; the sun dance of the Sioux, &c., have been compiled from memoranda gathered under the direction of Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan, in 1881 and 1882. Those referring to Apaches, &c., of Arizona; to Northern Mexico; to pueblo ruins and cliff and cave dwellings; to Sioux, Cheyennes, Crows, Arapahoes, Pawnees, Shoshones, Utes, and other tribes, extending back to 1869, were mainly
obtained while the author was serving as aide-de-camp upon the staff of Brigadier General George Crook, during the campaigns conducted by that officer against hostile tribes west of the Missouri, from the British line down into Mexico, and to a considerable extent under General Crook's direction and with his encouragement and assistance.
War Department, Washington, D. C., December 31, 1887.

Contents
Preliminary Observations
The urine dance of the Zunis of New Mexico
The Feast of Fools in Europe
The commemorative character of religious festivals
Fray Diego Duran's account of the Mexican festivals
The urine dance of the Zunis may conserve a tradition of the time when vile aliment was in use
Excrement used in human food
The Mexican goddess Suchiquecal eats ordure
The Bacchic orgies of the Greeks
Bacchic orgies in North America
The sacrifice of the dog a substitute for human sacrifice
Urine in human food
Urine used in bread-making
Urine used in the manufacture of salt
Siberian hospitality
Poisonous fungi used in ur-orgies
A similar use of fungi quite probably existed among the Mexicans
Mushrooms and toadstools said to have been worshiped by the North American Indians
A former use of fungus indicated in the myths of Ceylon and in the laws of the Brahmins
An inquiry into the Druidical use of the mistletoe
The mistletoe festival of the Mexicans
Cow dung and cow urine in religion
Cow dung in the religious ceremonies of the Israelites
Human ordure mingled in the food of the Israelites
Offerings of dung placed upon the altars of the Assyrian Venus
The sacred cow's excreta a substitute for human sacrifice
Human ordure and urine still used in India
Excrement gods of Egyptians and Romans
Israelitish dung gods
The use of the lingam in India
Urine and ordure as signs of mourning
Urine and ordure in industries
Urine in ceremonial lustrations
Ordure in smoking and divination
Ordure and urine employed as medicines
Occult influences ascribed to ordure and urine
Fearful rites of the Hottentots
Urine used to baffle witches
Ordure used in love-philters
Burlesque survivals
Phallic survivals in France
Medicinal effects of urine.

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