Incest Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Others=== In some Southeast Asian cultures, stories of incest being common among certain ethnicities are sometimes told as expressions of contempt for those ethnicities.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Edmunds |first1=Lowell |last2=Dundes |first2=Alan |title=Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook |date=1995 |publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-14853-9 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-3Hyd4ms_YC&q=Kalangs+incest&pg=PA32 |language=en}}</ref> Marriages between younger brothers and their older sisters were common among the early [[Udege people]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Deusen|first= Kira|date= 2 February 2011|title= Flying Tiger: Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur|publisher= McGill Queen's Press|page= 25|isbn= 978-0773521551}}</ref> In the Hawaiian Islands, high ''ali'i'' chiefs were obligated to marry their older sisters in order to increase their ''mana''. These copulations were thought to maintain the purity of the royal blood. Another reason for these familial unions was to maintain a limited size of the ruling ''ali'i'' group. As per the priestly regulations of Kanalu, put in place after multiple disasters, "chiefs must increase their numbers and this can be done if a brother marries his older sister."<ref>{{cite book |last= Gross|first= Jeffrey|date= 25 August 2016|title= Waipi'O Valley: A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden|publisher= Xlibris Corporation|isbn= 978-1479798469}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page