Title:
Plants of power : Native American ceremony and the use of sacred plants
Author:
Publication Date:
2002
Publication Information:
Summertown, Tenn. : Native Voices, ©2002.
Physical Description:
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781570671302
Abstract:
A comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and other indigenous people to heal physical and spiritual ailments, with information on the properties, growing conditions, and medicinal applications of fourteen key plants.
Contents:
The uses of sacred plants in ceremony: The ancestors help us to practice ; Prayers for first things ; The birth of things, morning prayers ; First rituals ; Prayers and incense offerings at birth, separation from the mother, baby-naming ; Rites of initiation, rites of passage ; Preparing for womanhood ; Preparing for manhood ; Crying for a vision ceremony ; Sweat lodge ceremony ; The Sun Dance ; Rites of last things ; The keeping of the soul rite ; Releasing of the soul rite ; Ceremonies and prayers, the use of cedar and juniper, before bedtime ; The four directions ; Winnebago prayer -- The plants: Incense cedar ; Red cedar ; Copal ; Juniper ; Lavender ; Mugwort ; Osha ; Piñon, nut pine ; White sage ; Desert sage ; Sweet grass ; Ceremonial tobacco ; Red willow bark, red osher dogwood ; Yerba santa.
Language:
English
