Yeibichain.

/ˈjeɪbɪtʃʌɪ/

Forms: Also Yeibechei, Yei-bi-che, Yéibit-cai, etc., and with lower-case initial.

Etymology: < Navajo Yé'ii Bicheii, lit. ‘Grandfather of the Yé'ii’, < Yé'ii giant supernatural being(s), lit. ‘fearful one’, + bicheii, bichaii his maternal grandfather.

A Navajo curative or initiation ceremony performed by masked dancers representing a deity; also, one of the dancers performing the ceremony and the deity so represented (see also quot. 1963).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > curative > [noun]

Yeibichai1887

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > initiatory > [noun]

initiatory1675

Upanayana1817

Yeibichai1887

initiation ceremony1899

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > American Indian dancing > [noun] > dancer

sun dancer1870

Ghost Dancer1890

Yeibichai1923

1887 5th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1883–4 385 Another ceremony..which the whites usually call the ‘Yaỳbichy Dance’ (Yèbitcai), has a final public exhibition which occupies the whole night.

1891 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 p. xxv Mrs. Stevenson was..enabled to obtain a minute description of the celebrated dance, or medicine ceremony, of the Navajos, called the Yéibit-cai.

1923 Palacio 15 Dec. 187/2 The men representing two of the Yeibitchai—the deities Hasjelti and Hosjoghon—entered.

1939 Yale Rev. Mar. 567 They begin the Yei-bet-chai chant, the most eerie, the most piercing of all chants.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XV. Pl. iii. (following p. 12), no. 4 (caption) Yeibichai mask. Navajo Indians, New Mex.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XV. 14/1 The masks used by the Navajo in the Yeibichai, as the night chant is called, are copies of the cylinder and face masks of the Pueblos, but are made of soft buckskin.

1963 G. S. Maxwell Navajo Rugs iii. 22 Less common than the Yei is the rug known as a Yeibichai... The Yeibichai represents a line of Navajo dancers impersonating Yeis.

1979 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 24 May 2/2 Do you have any squaw dances, Yei-bi-che or medicinemen, we asked?

1981 L. M. Silko Storyteller 43/1 She faced east and listened to the wind and snow sing a high-pitched Yeibechei song.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	yeibichai
释义	Yeibichain. /ˈjeɪbɪtʃʌɪ/ Forms: Also Yeibechei, Yei-bi-che, Yéibit-cai, etc., and with lower-case initial. Etymology: < Navajo Yé'ii Bicheii, lit. ‘Grandfather of the Yé'ii’, < Yé'ii giant supernatural being(s), lit. ‘fearful one’, + bicheii, bichaii his maternal grandfather. A Navajo curative or initiation ceremony performed by masked dancers representing a deity; also, one of the dancers performing the ceremony and the deity so represented (see also quot. 1963). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > curative > [noun] Yeibichai1887 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > initiatory > [noun] initiatory1675 Upanayana1817 Yeibichai1887 initiation ceremony1899 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > American Indian dancing > [noun] > dancer sun dancer1870 Ghost Dancer1890 Yeibichai1923 1887 5th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1883–4 385 Another ceremony..which the whites usually call the ‘Yaỳbichy Dance’ (Yèbitcai), has a final public exhibition which occupies the whole night. 1891 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 p. xxv Mrs. Stevenson was..enabled to obtain a minute description of the celebrated dance, or medicine ceremony, of the Navajos, called the Yéibit-cai. 1923 Palacio 15 Dec. 187/2 The men representing two of the Yeibitchai—the deities Hasjelti and Hosjoghon—entered. 1939 Yale Rev. Mar. 567 They begin the Yei-bet-chai chant, the most eerie, the most piercing of all chants. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XV. Pl. iii. (following p. 12), no. 4 (caption) Yeibichai mask. Navajo Indians, New Mex. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XV. 14/1 The masks used by the Navajo in the Yeibichai, as the night chant is called, are copies of the cylinder and face masks of the Pueblos, but are made of soft buckskin. 1963 G. S. Maxwell Navajo Rugs iii. 22 Less common than the Yei is the rug known as a Yeibichai... The Yeibichai represents a line of Navajo dancers impersonating Yeis. 1979 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 24 May 2/2 Do you have any squaw dances, Yei-bi-che or medicinemen, we asked? 1981 L. M. Silko Storyteller 43/1 She faced east and listened to the wind and snow sing a high-pitched Yeibechei song. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1887
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