Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Frame for Ojibwe sweat lodge. A sweat lodge is a low profile hut, typically dome-shaped or oblong, and made with natural materials. The structure is the lodge, and the ceremony performed within the structure may be called by some cultures a purification ceremony or simply a sweat.
Temazcal at the Joya de Cerén archaeological site, El Salvador. A temazcal is a type of sweat lodge, which originated with indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica.The term temazcal comes from the Nahuatl language, either from the words teme (to bathe) and calli (house), [1] or from the word temāzcalli [temaːsˈkalːi] (house of heat).
A sweat lodge structure like that used for Lakota ini kaġapi rites. A basic preparation before Lakota rituals is the ini kaġapi ("they revitalize themselves"), a period of time spent in a purification lodge or sweat lodge. [212] A shorter variant of this process is often termed the inípi. [213] This is deemed a time for prayer. [214]
The inípi, or iníkaǧapi, ceremony (Lakota: i-, in regard to, + ni, life, + kaǧa, they make, -pi, makes the term plural or a noun, 'they revitalize themselves', in fast speech, inípi [1]), a type of sweat lodge, is a purification ceremony of the Lakota people. [2]
Sweat Lodge 10 Wildest and Most Surprising Moments From Aaron Rodgers Enigma. Part of Rodgers’ trip to Costa Rica involved a temazcal, a traditional sweat lodge ceremony.
The sweat lodge may be performed on its own, often for curative reasons, or as preparation for another important ceremony or undertaking, for instance when an Ojibwe person wishes to contact the manitouk or make an important decision. [181] The purpose of the sweat lodge is to purify and strengthen the person undertaking it. [181]
A smaller, but no less significant ritual, celebrated both in the pre-reservation world and in contemporary Crow society, is the sweat lodge. While this ritual is practiced alone, it is also an important prerequisite to the Sun Dance that tribal members believe purifies the body and prepares the soul for the Sun Dance.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the use of a ritual based on the sweat lodge became increasingly popular among some Neo-druids in Ireland and the U.K. [104] Some Druids regard these sweat lodges as "initiatory and regenerative opportunities to rededicate oneself to honouring the Earth and the community of life."