The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced differently by several North American
Indian Nations, but many of the ceremonies have features in common, including
dancing, singing and drumming, the experience of visions, fasting, and, in some
cases, self-torture.
The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of
the Plains Indians of 19th-century North America, ordinarily held by each tribe
once a year usually at the time of the Summer Solstice.
The Sun Dance last from four to eight days starting at the sunset of the
final day of preparation and ending at sunset. It showed a continuity between
life and death - a regeneration. It shows that there is no true end to life, but
a cycle of symbolic and true deaths and rebirths. All of nature is intertwined
and dependent on one another. This gives an equal ground to everything on the
Earth.
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