Religion and ceremonies of the LenapeHarrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond)
Religion
Religion and ceremonies of the Lenape
Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond)
Delaware Indians -- Religion
_Fire_, ceremonial making of: at Annual ceremony, 85-88, 101,
132-133, 196;
at Buffalo dance, 182;
at Otter ceremony, 179;
ceremonial use of: at Annual ceremony, 98-100, 105, 107, 117-121,
134, 160;
at Bear cult, 173-175;
at Doll dance, 165-166;
at Feast of first fruits, 144-145;
at Otter ceremony, 180-181;
at Peyote rite, 187, 189;
festival in honor of, 125-126;
gift of Great Spirit, 18;
tobacco offered to, 126
_Fire-drill_ used in Annual ceremony, 86.
See _Pump-drill_
_Fire-maker_ of the manĭʹtos, 101.
See _Pump-drill_
_First fruits_, offering of, 115, 144-145, 197.
See _Strawberry dance_
_Fish_ as guardian spirit, 72-73, 78
_Flint_, and steel, ceremonial fire-making with, 179;
fire springing from, 18
_Flying Wolf_, vision of, 73-76
_Food_, ceremonial purity of, 62-63;
distribution of, at Annual ceremony, 121;
hunters provided with, 97;
offered to dead, 52, 195-196;
procured by dead, 71.
See _Feast_
_Foot-log_ across river to Spirit land, 54
_Forest_, boys driven into, for vision, 63-64
_Forks_ on drumsticks, 130, 141
_Four_, attendants: at Annual ceremony, 118;
in Minsi ceremony, 132;
drumsticks in Minsi ceremony, 139;
musicians in Minsi ceremony, 140
_Four Directions_ or Four Winds, manĭʹtowŭk of, 25-27, 29, 88,
112-113, 193;
prayers to, 51.
See _Winds_
_Four Powers_, Brainerd on, 22.
See _Four Directions_
_Fouts_, see _Fox_
_Fox, Julius_, acknowledgment to, 14;
explanation of Annual ceremony by, 111-113
_Fox, Minnie_, acknowledgment to, 14
_Fruits_, prayer for, 113.
See _First fruits_
_Full moon_, Annual ceremony held in, 119-120;
Mĭsiʹngʷ‛ dance in, 152
_Future_, controlled by guardian spirit, 62;
foretold by visions, 61-62, 79-80, 121;
prayers for, 115.
See _Immortality_
_Game_, Mask Being guardian of, 150
_Gaʹmuing_, native name for Annual ceremony, 109.
See _Annual ceremony_
_General thanksgiving_, see _Thanksgiving_
_Genii_ of places, 51
_Ghost dance_, rites of, 190-191
_Ghosts_, as guardian spirits, 54;
bewitchment by, 59
_Giant Bear_, an evil manĭʹto, 49.
See _Great Bear_
_Gicelĕmû‛ʹkaong_ or Great Spirit, 88.
See _Great Spirit_
_Gickonĭkiʹzho_ or _Gĭckokwiʹta_, Unami name of sun, 27.
See _Sun_
_Girls_, sacred otter of, 176-179;
vision of Doll Being by, 162-163
_Gitctlaʹkan_ or Thanksgiving ceremony, 139-143
_God of day_, 28.
See _Sun_
_God of light_, 23-24.
See _Great Spirit_
_Goodness_, attribute of Great Spirit, 17, 23-24;
definition of, 58;
reward of, 53, 56, 58, 90-92
_Gourd rattle_ at Peyote rite, 188
_Grandfather_, at the East, 26;
at the North, 26, 48;
at the West, 26;
title of: Four Directions, 193;
Mask, 112;
Tornado, 47;
Fire, 125
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