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Native American Sacred Hoop Visionquest
Drumming Smudging and Sweat Lodges
The Sweat Lodge is a preparatory ceremony of
spiritual renewal that purifies and cleanses a person for lengthy fasting, for
dancing, for important life events, and for undertaking endeavors.
With the assistance of a Medicine Person, the sweat lodge is also a place of sacred
refuge where one can receive guidance and answers to questions from spirit
helpers, animal totems, Mother Earth, and the Great Spirit.
The sweat lodge is
usually a small structure with a framework of saplings and a covering of skins
or blankets with a small flap to regulate the temperature inside.
In the center
there is a hallowed space blessed with tobacco and sweetgrass that is filled
with hot rocks and then water is poured on them to generate steam.
Native American Crow Tribe Sacred Bundle
The ceremony (which
usually includes prayers, songs, chants, and drumming) releases all
impurities and sends them out on the four winds.
The Sweat Lodge is a
preparatory ceremony for Fasting. Fasting is usually undergone during the spring and fall under the guidance of an Elder (who
provides the ceremonial surroundings and acts as guide).
Fasting from all
food and drink for a period of time is a time-honored way to quicken
spirituality. Fasting takes place at a location envisioned in a dream by
the person fasting, a place where the answer to a question will be seen in a
dream or in a vision or in an moment of clear understanding.
Afterwards a Medicine Person or an Elder or a group of Elders confirms the results. Elders are men and women, regardless of age, who have been infused with Wisdom and other spiritual gifts from the Great Spirit such as: sweat lodge ceremony healer abilities and herbal remedies skills... Go back
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