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Ceremonies, Traditional Lifeways

Tribes

Navajo

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Arnold Clifford

Twin Fall Offerings

There are spiritual protocols with which the Navajo approach these falls, one of their sacred sites. The offerings ensure safe passage into the canyons beyond and speak to traditional knowledge that the rocks here are themselves “alive”. The area is full of the holy people who live here: Wind People, Plant People and Rock People – living within the rocks themselves. To collect plants at Twin Falls for medicines or for ceremonial purposes, it is necessary to create a ‘venue’ or ‘channel’ so that the plants will really work with you. All are to be approached with reverence. Success in working with the plants depends on the relationship you build with them, rather than simply gathering them.

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