Yuwipi
eBook - ePub

Yuwipi

Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual

  1. 113 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Yuwipi

Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual

About this book

A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.

The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. Wayne Runs Again, suffering from alcoholism and worried about his father's health, seeks out a shaman who, while bound in darkness, calls on supernatural beings to free him and to communicate. While the young man undergoes purification in a sweat lodge and waits on a hill for a vision, the community prays for him and his father. The ceremony serves not only to cure the sick but also to reaffirm the continuity of Oglala society.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Prelude
  9. Sacred Stones
  10. The Sweat Lodge: Inside
  11. The Vision Quest: On the Hill
  12. Preparing for the Sing
  13. The Vision Talk
  14. Calling the Spirits
  15. The Curing
  16. The Feast
  17. The Vision Quest: Off the Hill
  18. The Sweat Lodge: Outside
  19. Postlude
  20. An Anthropological View
  21. Bibliography
  22. Glossary and Index of Lakota Terms
  23. Subject Index
  24. Author Index
  25. Maps
  26. Back Cover