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Navajo sandpainting, photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, 1907, Library of Congress. In the sandpainting of southwestern Native Americans (the most famous of which are the Navajo [known as the Diné]), the Medicine Man (or Hatałii) paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan, where the ceremony takes place, or on a buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the coloured sands flow through his fingers ...
Sand mandala (Tibetan: དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།, Wylie: dkyil 'khor, THL kyinkhor; Chinese: 沙壇城/壇城沙畫) is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand.
The Night Way is a healing ceremony that takes course over nine days. Each day the patient is cleansed through a varying number of exercises done to attract holiness or repel evil in the form of exorcisms, sweat baths, and sand painting ceremonies. On the final day the one who is sung over inhales the "breath of dawn" and is deemed cured.
Sand drawing in Vanuatu (2007). Sand drawing (or sandroing in Bislama) is a ni-Vanuatu artistic and ritual tradition and practice, recognised by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
A weaving based on a Whirling Log ceremony sand painting by Klah, circa 1925. Hosteen Klah (Navajo: Hastiin Tłʼa, 1867– February 27, 1937) [1] was a Navajo artist and medicine man. He documented aspects of Navajo religion and related ceremonial practices. As a traditional nádleehi person, he was both a ceremonial singer and master weaver.
Canadian singer Celine Dion, who closed out the opening ceremony for the Olympics with her rendition of "L'Hymne à l'amour” by the French singer Édith Piaf in front of the Eiffel Tower3, ...
This ceremony lasts for four nights and five days and occurs as close as possible to when a child experiences her first menstruation. [3] During this ceremony, the initiate will have an adult female mentor, known as the Ideal Woman, who is a prime example of someone who follows the Navajo ceremonies and also resembles characteristics of the ...
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