Tabus

Wesleyans, called back the exiles from Samoa, invited in the traders, held a general love-feast, took the lid off, proclaimed religious liberty and high tariff, and as for himself went back to the worship of his ancestors, dug up the idols, reinstated a few octogenarian priests, and observed the tabus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

First converted by the Catholics, he threw down the idols, broke the tabus, cleaned out the native priests, executed a few of the recalcitrant ones, and sent all his subjects to church. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps the perfumed air was enough to loosen the sexual tabus of the people of Nkumai. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are times for tabus and times to ignore them, and at the end of a particularly terrible scream that signaled a new plateau of pain, I got up and went into the house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While 'personal space' is less than what you have in the US, Germans still have social tabus on touching, especially in such a public forum as the G8 summit. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nobres intenções, fácil de dizer, difícil de implantar: no terreno, a influência dos tabus e a preparação pessoal de cada um prejudica a abordagem destes temas. ❋ Artur (2008)

If I perish by the anger of Pele, then you may fear the power of Pele; but if I trust in Jehovah, and he should save me from the wrath of Pele, when I break through her tabus, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

You are a creature of the despotism, a pukka sahib, tied tighter than a monk or a savage by an unbreakable system of tabus. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The one constant in every society of humankind is that only those who obey the laws, tabus, and customs of marriage are true adults. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1986)

He had inherited great sanctity and was growing into an able if not a clever man; there was no greater astronomer than he, and it was tacitly understood that he would in time become guardian of the tabus. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

Tupuna then enumerated more than five dozen additional tabus which protected the king in his suspension between the upper gods and the lower men: his spittle may not be touched; his excrement must be buried at night in a secret pkce; his food must be prepared only by chiefs; his reservoir of mana must be protected; he is tabu, he is tabu. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

In this manner, and with the approval of the people, who wanted to be organized within established levels, the tabus were promulgated HAWAII and patterns were developed whereby each man would know his level and none would transgress. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

"It is in a new knd that customs are most necessary," the priest warned, and the king supported him, and out of their discussions the tabus were established. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

Prayers, respect and observance of tabus had always been accorded all gods, but a master god like Oro merited supreme sacrifices like sharks and men. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

In general, however, the tabus which were rigidly enforced on land had to be suspended aboard a crowded canoe. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

But we stopped when we found the age that was being indoctrinated with Lani tabus. ❋ Unknown (1951)

Desires are simpler in the savage, yet the driving motives are the same as in the “cultured” ex-animal overlaid with generations of inhibitions — tabus — which form complex strata making the truth more and more difficult to recognise. ❋ Charles Beadle (N/A)

As with all peoples whose religion is barbarous, there were ways of obtaining sanctuary and many a man has saved his life by taking advantage of the tabus which secured their operation. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The war was over, the new totalitarian states had not arisen, moral and religious tabus of all descriptions had vanished, and the cash was rolling in. ❋ Unknown (1940)

Donatus was already so far away from that day that he had no feeling for its social tabus. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)