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Road of Life and Death: Ritual Drama of the American Indians (Bollingen Series)
Road of Life and Death Ritual Drama of the American Indians - Bollingen Series Author:Paul Radin In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes o... more »f the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.« less