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...sand-painting on this page is one of scores that Navajo medicine men know by heart and create (and destroy) within a day. It is an integral part of the Navajo Night Chant, a nine-day rite which takes place soon after autumn's first frost. Its purpose is to heal the very...
...this Night Chant painting, a protective rainbow encloses the picture on the North, West and South. The East (at top here) is left open, because good influences come from that direction. In the center of the painting is a sacred cornstalk, growing from what the Navajos call a "Shapen Cloud." Four benevolent Humpback deities stand at the outer edges, carrying staffs and black clouds filled with the fruits of the earth. Grouped around the cornstalk are eight gods and goddesses gathering healing pollen. On the north are the roundheaded earth gods, black and red, with white-coated, oblong-headed goddesses...
...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general." ...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throng set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...
...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general." ...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throng set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...
Three Soviet propaganda themes rose above the hullabaloo: 1) the old Russian lullaby cooing that Moscow seeks "unity with the peace-loving peoples everywhere"; 2) a nostalgic German love song urging the reunification of East and West Germany "under the leadership of ... the mighty Soviet Union"; 3) a war chant directed at U.S. "war profiteers...