The ancient Mexican tribe was composed of twenty autonomous kins.
The human commensals were the totem-kin, whom Robertson Smith conceived to have been in the habit of sharing a common meal in daily life, or at least of not mixing with other kins.
In a little more than a century, however, the Kins were driven out of China by the Mongols under Jenghiz Khan.
In ancient society certain animals, plants, kins, families, were also holy and bound up with the god by blood-ties or otherwise.
These rites are common in North America, but are worked by members of gilds or societies, not by totem kins.
