| 单词 | vision quest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvision quest vision quest n. North American the attempt to achieve a vision traditionally undertaken by mature men of the Plains Indian peoples, usually through fasting or self-torture. ΚΠ 1922 R. Benedict in Amer. Anthropologist 24 3 Three patterns of wide distribution are sometimes taken to characterize the vision quest of the Plains. 1966 D. Aberle Peyote Relig. among Navaho xx. 340 Anthropologists have been impressed by the similarities between peyotism and the Plains vision quest. 1971 E. Shorris Death of Great Spirit iv. 40 He is a Uwipi, a medicine man and practitioner of the traditional vision quest, and there is not a Sioux Indian within two hundred miles of Pine Ridge who does not regard him with a certain amount of awe. < as lemmas |
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