| 单词 | sun dance ceremony |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun dance ceremony In the cultures of certain North American Indian peoples of the Great Plains: an annual religious ceremony lasting several days at which individuals pray, fast, and offer personal sacrifices on behalf of their family, community, etc., and at which young men typically participate in self-mortifying dances which require them to endure pain and exhaustion; sometimes also more fully sun dance ceremony. Also spec.: the self-mortifying dance in which young men typically participate at this ceremony.The misconception among outsiders that the purpose of such dances is to honour and worship the sun is due to the misinterpretation of the Lakota name for the ceremony by the missionary M. H. Eastman; see note in etymology and quot. 1849.In some ceremonies the dancers dance around a pole to which each is attached by a strip of rawhide that is pierced through the skin of his chest or (less commonly) back; cf. quot. 1894. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > American Indian dancing > [noun] canticoy1670 corn dance1726 pipe dance1778 bear dance1784 sun dance1849 Ghost Dance1876 matachin1882 chicken dance1888 Ghost Dancing1890 snake-dance1931 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > dance > [noun] canticoy1670 snake dance1772 ritual dance1805 cyclic chorus1846 sun dance1849 Ghost Dance1876 kagura1884 kachina dance1888 Ghost Dancing1890 tripudium1909 ring-shout1926 trance dance1935 Shango1941 1849 M. H. Eastman Dahcotah p. xxii The Sioux worship the sun. The sun dance is performed by young warriors who dance, at intervals of five minutes, for several days. 1890 Cent. Mag. Mar. 753/2 Ordinarily each tribe..has its own celebration of the sun-dance. 1894 Outing May 88/1 Those dreadful cicatrices left by the sun-dance. 1903 G. A. Dorsey Arapaho Sun Dance v. 22 So far as I have been able to learn, there is no set time for the Sun Dance ceremony among the Arapaho. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 332/2 The principal appeal to dreams and visions, the Sun Dance, was common to nearly all the people of the plains. 2012 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 18 Aug. (Final ed.) a1 She helps inmates..understand their anger, and takes their prayer ribbons with her each year when she fasts at a sacred sun dance. < as lemmas |
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