The sacrifice of the domestic animal.
The Roman sacrifice of the Suovetaurilia was in no way peculiar, similar rites being found in other Greek and Latin cities.

Some instances are recorded in the article on Kasai, and in _Themis_ [203] Miss Jane Harrison gives an account of a sacrifice at Magnesia in which a bull, ram and he- and she-goats were sacrificed to the gods and partaken of communally by the citizens.

As already seen, the act of participation in the sacrifice conferred the status of citizenship.

The domestic animals were not as a rule eaten, but their milk was drunk, and they were used for transport, and clothes were perhaps sometimes made from their hair and skins.

Hence they were the principal source of life of the tribe, as the totem had been of the clan, and were venerated and deified.