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PUBERTY (Lat. pubertas, from pubes, puber, mature, adult)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 626 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PUBERTY (Lat. pubertas, from pubes, puber, mature, adult) , that period of
life
  at which the generative organs in both sexes become functionally active (see REPRODUCTIVE
SYSTEM
 ). In northern countries males enter upon sexual maturity between fourteen and sixteen, sometimes not much before the eighteenth year, females between twelve and fourteen. In tropical climates puberty is much earlier. In
English
  common law the age of puberty is conclusively presumed to be fourteen in the male and twelve in the female. Puberty is of much ethnological
interest
 , as being the occasion among many races for feasts and religious ceremonies. In Rome a feast was given to the family and friends: the
hair
  of boys was cut short, a lock being thrown into the fire in honour of Apollo, and one into water as an offering to Neptune. Girls offered their dolls to
Venus
 , and the bullaa little locket of gold worn round children's necks, often by boys as well as girlswas taken off and dedicated in the case of the former to Hercules or the
household
  lares, in the case of the latter to Juno. The attainment of puberty is celebrated by savages with ceremonies some of which seem to be directly associated with totemism. The Australian
rites
  of initiation include the raising of those scars on the bodies of clansmen or clanswomen which serve as tribal badges or actually depict the totem. Among many
savage
  peoples lads at puberty undergo a pretence of being killed and brought to
life
  again.


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