Diseases. ·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 oDone on the floor of the Hogan the patient lives oMany different sand painting designs oEach design suppose to have the power to cure a certain ailment oDepicts the masked supernatural beings that are being called on to help cure the patient ·Top of sand painting faces east oDirection 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
A man making a sand painting.
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Diseases.
· 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