Annotation - Chapter 5, Page 28

• (28:29) "therewl all ways be a nother Goodparley & Orfing"

If the Eusa show had been created purely for propagandistic purposes, there would be no need to ensure that the Big 2 always had the same names. It might increase stability, but no more than the constancy of the titles would. It may be more instructive to look to the examples of sacred kingship in which each king is supposed to participate in the same substance as each of his predecessors. This is seen most directly in the Shilluk belief that their kings are "animated by a single divine spirit, which has been transmitted from the semi-mythical, but probably in substance historical, founder of the dynasty" (The Golden Bough, p. 312) to each current ruler. The Roman custom of naming each emperor "Caesar" points to a similar, though not as explicit, practice. BW