The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians

ISBN-13: 9780691019161 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 368 str.

Paul Radin; Mark Van Doren

Opis

In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.