Basors of the Lurhia clan, who venerate a grinding-stone, worship this implement at the time of eating the marriage cakes.

M.Fustel de Coulanges states that the Roman Confarreatio, or eating of a cake together by the bride and bridegroom in the presence of the family gods of the latter, constituted their holy union or marriage.

By this act the wife was transferred to the gods and religion of her husband.

[168] Here the gods referred to are clearly held to be the family gods, and in the historical period it seems doubtful whether the Roman _gens_ was still exogamous.

But if the patriarchal family developed within the exogamous clan tracing descent through males, and finally supplanted the clan as the most important social unit, then it would follow that the family gods were only a substitute for the clan gods, and the bride came to be transferred to her husband's family instead of to his clan.