Remember those little funny shaped tubes you used to fill with multicolored sand when you were little? Gee, didn't you forget how much fun they were.
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Uh, I never bothered with those. I found it pointless, probably because of my Injun blood.
The Navajos have a complex series of healing ceremonies, or chants. They are designed to restore harmony to the patient, or as the Navajos say, "h�³zh�³." Some of these Navajo ceremonies last as long as nine days and nights. Ordinarily, on each of these nights, the Singer (medicine man) directs the making of a sandpainting that illustrates an allegory used in the ceremony. According to tradition, the sandpainting must be ceremoniously destroy before dawn, or dreadful taboos can be inflicted upon the Singer and/or patient.
More Info here. (http://www.canyonart.com/sandrugs.htm)
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