{"id":1150,"date":"2012-10-03T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2012-10-03T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T21:37:40","slug":"yei-bi-chei-yebichai-night-chant-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/yei-bi-chei-yebichai-night-chant-third-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Yei Bi Chei (Yebichai) Night Chant-Third Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is understood that the patient has been sweated in the morning, as on the second day.<\/p>\n

\"Navajo<\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo of Navajo Medicine Man<\/em><\/p>\n

Sources of Information for the Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Night Chant, A Navaho Ceremony. By Washington Matthews \u2013 May, 1902.<\/em>
\nLegend Of The Night Chant- The North American Indian By Edward S. Curtis 1907<\/em>
\nThe Nightway:A History and a History of Documentation of a Navajo Ceremonial by: James C. Faris \u2013 1990.<\/em>
\nEarth is My Mother, Sky is my Father, by Trudy Griffin-Pierce, 1992<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On this night he is dressed in spruce boughs by the assisting medicine-man, bound around the wrists, arms, ankles, legs, and body, and fastened on the head in the form of a turban.<\/p>\n

After several songs, Nayenezgani<\/a> and Tobadzischini<\/a> cut the boughs from the body, using a stone arrow-point as a knife. Then the boughs are cut into fragments over the patient’s head, after which the singer takes a feather wand, points it toward the four cardinal points above the fire, and brushes the patient, chanting meanwhile.<\/p>\n

At the end of the brushing he points the wand out of the smoke-hole, at the same time blowing the dust from it out into the open air.<\/p>\n

See the Yei Bi Chei Ceremony now going on in Shiprock at \u00a0the Northern Navajo Nation Fair<\/a><\/p>\n

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It is understood that the patient has been sweated in the morning, as on the second day. Photo of Navajo Medicine Man Sources of Information for the Article: The Night Chant, A Navaho Ceremony. By Washington Matthews \u2013 May, 1902. Legend Of The Night Chant- The North American Indian By Edward S. Curtis 1907 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,6],"tags":[140,352,338,359],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-legends","category-navajo-mythology","tag-medicine-man","tag-nayenezgani","tag-night-chant","tag-tobadzischini","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}