Friday, April 8, 2016

Kinaalda: The Navajo Girls' Puberty Ceremony Comments

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On the first morning after her first bleeding
The girl bathes.

The girl washes her hair in suds from a yucca root
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Dev Anand 08 April 2016

Her body is painted with white clay Special jewellery is placed upon her Outside her home, her body again is moulded The ceremony concludes. The girl is a woman...all kinds of customs in the world. this is a thing which a european can never dream of......... thank you for this descriptive poem. i learn a lot from it. dev

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Jayatissa K. Liyanage 08 April 2016

Quite interesting to learn other cultures. I note a long standing tradition welded with the culture to make a woman out of a girl. Thanks for sharing.

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Akhil Raveendran 08 April 2016

nice, , tell about people habit. enjoy like a story....

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