The interest of this paper lies primarily in the fact that if the particular culture involved were not mentioned, the Oedipal situations elucidated could be assumed to come directly from observations of the American scene. The author points out that Western writers have often been unable to see aggressive tensions in Oriental families because, impressed by the expressions of solidarity, they have tended to sentimentalize them and have confused formal deference with actual feeling. In discussing some delightful myths of Burma, Spiro presents the story of a lion, Thihabahu, an almost literal rendering of the Greek Oedipus Rex.