Motif
Collection and preservation of ritually charged substances
collection_and_preservation_of_ritually_charged_substances
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southwest
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The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony NOTE ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF NAVAJO WORDS. / ILLUSTRATIONS / THE MOUNTAIN CHANT: A NAVAJO CEREMONY. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 2122-2213 confidence: high
After instructions, couriers depart north and south; an elaborate picture is painted; the southern akáninili returns, is divested, and his white paint is scraped off and preserved in medicine bags.
White paint is preserved in medicine bags, corn pollen is gathered after the treatment, and spectators collect or apply remaining dust from the picture.
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