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Motif

Call-and-response ritual prayer

call_and_response_ritual_prayer

A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions

navajo

  • Navaho Legends POETRY AND MUSIC. / TRIBAL ORGANIZATION. / RELIGION. / CEREMONIES.; lines 1764-1811 confidence: high

    The shaman gives the prayer one sentence at a time, and the patient repeats it sentence by sentence.

    The shaman gives the prayer sentence by sentence and the patient repeats each sentence after him.

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