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The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony
Washington Matthews
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Description for The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony
Paperback. This updated volume discusses the nine-day winter Navajo healing ceremony intended to cure disease, bring rain, and invoke the unseen powers for general benefit. Num Pages: 122 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
The Mountain Chant is a nine-day Navajo healing ceremony, one of several major rites undertaken only in winter. Aside from curing disease, it brings rain and invokes the unseen powers for general benefit. Though perhaps practiced less often now than better-known ceremonies such as the Night Chant, it is by no means forgotten.
Fully faithful to the original book published by Washington Matthews over a century ago, this edition contains the story of the wandering hero upon whose exploits the Mountain Chant is based, a description of each of the nine ceremonial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
122
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9780874805420
SKU
V9780874805420
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