Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial.
"This ritual, which we call the navaho religion, is permeated with a colorful symbolism to which ceremonial speech, action, and paraphernalia contribute": First edition of Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial
Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial.
WYMAN, Leland C. Myth recorded and translated by Father Berard Haile.
Item Number: 88184
New York: Pantheon Books, Inc, 1957.
First edition of this presentation of a Navaho Indian ceremonial through both literary and graphic mediums. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 16 color plates of sandpaintings. With Father Berard’s recording of the myth bound in a separate booklet within a pocket affixed to the verso of the rear panel. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Beautyway presents the Navaho Indian ceremonial chantway through multiple translations of Navaho myths and detailed illustrations of traditional sandpaintings. Native to the plateau country of New Mexico and northeastern Arizona, the Navaho people have no organized priesthoods or religious societies, but medicine men who carry out ceremonials when deemed necessary to encourage good health and prosperity. The ceremonials range from one to nine-night chants which include a consecration, unraveling ceremony, offering, bath, and sandpainting ritual.
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