Plagues+and+Diseases

__** A man making a sand painting. [|//navajopeople.org/images/navajo-sandpainting.jpg]**__

· Healing sing ·  Cure someone of an apparent sickness ·  Person becomes the centre of the healing sing ·  Each type of sickness there is a sand painting o  Done on the floor of the Hogan the patient lives o  Many different sand painting designs o  Each design suppose to have the power to cure a certain ailment o  Depicts the masked supernatural beings that are being called on to help cure the patient ·  Top of sand painting faces east o  Direction the gods are believed to come from ·  Hataalii (medicine man) and helpers create sand paintings ·  Made from various colourd sands ·  Charcoal, cornmeal, and pollen also used ·  Vary in size ·  Daytime healing; sand painting begun in the morning, and then ceremony is performed, and sand painting is destroyed before sunset ·  Night-time healing, sand paintings begun after sunset, and destroyed before sunrise ·  Appropriate chant ·  Herbal medicines ·  After sand painting is completed, person being treated sits on the painting ·  Healing songs sung ·  Aromatic herbs are burned ·  Herbal medicines administered ·  Sometime includes masked dancers From the book: The Apaches and Navajos. By: Craig A. Doherty, and Katherine M. Doherty __**
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