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Navajo medicine covers a range of traditional healing practices of the Indigenous American Navajo people. It dates back thousands of years as many Navajo people have relied on traditional medicinal practices as their primary source of healing .
The Navajo song ceremonial complex is a spiritual practice used by certain Navajo ceremonial people to restore and maintain balance and harmony in the lives of the people. . One half of the ceremonial complex is the Blessing Way, while the other half is the Enemy Way (AnaŹ¼í Ndáá
Some Navajo Indian legends are staples in literature, including The First Man and First Woman [54] as well as The Sun, Moon, and Stars. [55] The First Man and Woman is the story about the creation of the world, and The Sun, Moon, and Stars is the story about the origin of heavenly bodies.
Wellness is a particularly broad term, [13] but it is often used by promoters of unproven medical therapies, such as the Food Babe [5] or Goop. [13] Jennifer Gunter has criticized what she views as a promotion of over-diagnoses by the wellness community. Goop's stance is that it is "skeptical of the status quo" and "offer[s] open-minded ...
Nádleehi is a social and, at times, ceremonial role in Diné (Navajo) culture [1] – an "effeminate male" or "male-bodied person with a feminine nature". [2] [3] However, the nádleehi gender role is also fluid and cannot be simply described in terms of rigid gender binaries. [2]
A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas. Each culture has its own name in its language for spiritual healers and ceremonial leaders.
In Navajo culture, a skin-walker (Navajo: yee naaldlooshii) is a type of harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal. The term is never used for healers. The yee naaldlooshii, translating to "by means of it, it goes on all fours," is one of several types of skin-walkers within Navajo beliefs.
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