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That modern man gave up the polygamous desire of the primeval father and complied to monogamous love of non-incestuous women, is a consequence of the primeval patricide. In primeval times, such primeval patricide must have occurred many times in many hordes. It was carried out by the sons of the primeval father, united in the fraternal horde. After the patricide, the cannibalistic brothers consumed their father's body communally. Their feeling of guilt inspired them to install the two fundamental taboos: the taboo on patricide and the taboo on incest, which had been the privilege of the primeval father. Henceforward, humans have to repress their polygamous and incestuous nature.
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