Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1926 — Page 9

AUG. 20, 1926

STONEAGEDAYS REVIVED IN U. S. BY JPI TRIBE Snake Dance This Year Is Ritual of Distant Past. Bu VBA Service FLAGSTAFF. Ariz., Aug. 20. Preparations are almost complete for the annual observance of the oldest, -most colorful religious ceremonial on tne Worm American continent —the world-famous Hopi Indian snake dance. In all the world there is no ceremony like this. It is a religious rite performed exactly as it was ten, twenty centuries ago—a strange relic of the old stone age. when the dividing line between magic and religion was not clearly defined. It will be witnessed by travelers from distant places. Men will come In automobiles, complicated products of the up-to-date twentieth century to watch the desert Indians perform rites that were time-worn when Europe was an unpeopled wilderness. A Prayer for Rain The snake dance is an annual orayer for rain—an invocation to the fcpds that live in the sky and control IRe clouds and to the gods that live under ground and control the springs and rivers, Joined in by the residents of six Hopi villages on a long mesa north of here. First the Sno.ke and Antelope clans meet to study various meteorological signs and determine the date for the dance. This year’s ceremony has been set for Aug. 21. Then come many days of preparation. In no Christian church are preparations for a sacrament more carefully made. A Town Crier A town crier announces the date from the housetops. The priests of the Antelope clan meet to set up the altar. They make a mosaic of different colored sands, which are sprinkled on the floor, with clouds end lightning represented symbolically. Then the prayer sticks are made, with prayers and invocations at each step of the procedure. Each participant smokes the sacred pipe, and the altar is consecrated and blessed morning and night. Sixteen songs are chanted each day to the accompaniment of rattles shaken by the priests. Snake Charm Liquid In the snake “kiva,” a sort of underground council chamber, the snake charm liquid is made. An Indian basket is placed on a special altar. In it are placed shells, charms, crushed nuts and sticks. A priest, with much chanting and ceremony, pours water into it from the fcaorth, east, south and west. Other priests circle about it., chewing some desert, herb and putting the .liquid In the basket. Priests .Are Anointed At last the charm nears completion. Each priest waves a “snake stick,” with eagle feathers attached, and the sacred pipe is lit, the smoke being tyown into the liquid. Four songs are chanted. Then the little chamber rings with the fierce Hopi war cry, the head priest mixes the liquid with cornmeal,l sprinkles it to the four points of the compass, kneads it with white clay, and rubs the resultant paste on the bodies of all the prists. Triife ceremony is supposed' to

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protect them from snake bites In t&e dance that is to follow. Catch Rattlers All of these ceremonies are performed by priests of the Antelope clan. Whilo they are thus engaged the men of the Snake clan go north, east, west and south* to catch the deadly rattle snakes for the snake dance. When a rattlesnake is found a prayer is offered, meal is scattered on it and it is seized alive and brought back to the village. The Indians catch the snake® with uncanny skill. Four days are consumed in this snake hunt. -On the evening of the last day of the hunt the Antelope priests dance in the plain. On the morrow the snake dance begins. Young Men Race It starts ■with the race of the young men. Long before sunrise

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it*he young Indians start from a place far out on the plain, beside a sacred spring. They cover the intervening miles with remarkable spe,ed, loping up the sloping mesa to the cheers of the crowd. The priests receive them, and each runner deposits prayer offerings at the altar. Then the captive snakes—sometimes there are as many as a hundred of them —are washed in the underground kiva. The priests squat and sing. Two priests take a handful of writhing, twisting snakes out of a jar and hand them to other priests who sit by a jar of consecrated water. The snakes are dipped Id this and tossed on the sand of the sacred altar, to the tune of bloodcurdling yells. Then the Dance At sunset comes the snake dance proper, op the open plaza. Visitors, both Indian and white, line the mesa above.

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