{"id":1125,"date":"2012-10-01T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2013-05-13T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:30:44","slug":"aschelti-talking-god-mask-yebichai-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/aschelti-talking-god-mask-yebichai-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasch\u00e9lti &#8211; Talking God Mask &#8211; Yebichai Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mask of Hasch\u00e9lti is the only white one seen in the ceremony. It is the caplike or baglike mask common to all male characters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The circular holes for mouth and eyes are each surrounded with a peculiar symbol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/hasche%cc%86lti-talking-god-mask-yebichai-ceremony\/haschelti-talking-god-mask\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1127\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1127\" title=\"Haschelti - Talking God - Mask\" alt=\"Haschelti - Talking God - Mask\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Haschelti-Talking-God-Mask.jpg\" width=\"597\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Haschelti-Talking-God-Mask.jpg 597w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Haschelti-Talking-God-Mask-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><em>Mask representing\u00a0Haashch?\u00e9\u00e9?ti?\u00ed, Talking God, used in Night Chant Ceremony, recorded by Matthews in 1902<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is said to represent a mist arising from the ground and a rain-cloud hanging above. Ascending from the mouth toward the top of the mask is the symbol of a corn-stalk with two ears on it.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the mask is a transverse band of yellow, to represent the yellow evening light, crossed by eight vertical black strokes to represent rain.<\/p>\n<p>When worn in the dance, it has a fringe of hair from side to side over the top; two tails of the black-tailed deer hanging over the forehead; at the back a fanlike ornament of many (6 to 12) eagle-plumes, and, at the base of this, a bunch of owl feathers. A large collar of spruce conceals the yellow band under the chin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The mask of Hasch\u00e9lti is the only white one seen in the ceremony. It is the caplike or baglike mask common to all male characters. &nbsp; The circular holes for mouth and eyes are each surrounded with a peculiar symbol. Mask representing\u00a0Haashch?\u00e9\u00e9?ti?\u00ed, Talking God, used in Night Chant Ceremony, recorded by Matthews in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[342,343,38,344],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-legends","tag-haschelti","tag-mask","tag-talking-god","tag-yebichai-ceremony","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}