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ESLV 3843 Maya Video
Vocabulary for Maya & the Medicine Woman video
Term | Definition |
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SWEAT LODGE | a hut, typically dome-shaped, used by North American Indians for ritual steam baths as a means of purification |
CEREMONY | a formal religious or public occasion, typically one celebrating a particular event or anniversary |
PRAY (verb) | address a solemn request or expression of thanks to a deity or other object of worship |
PRAYER (noun) | a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God, a deity, or an object of worship |
CREATOR | used as a name for God |
LAKOTA | a member of a North American people of western South Dakota |
ANCESTORS | a family member in the past, someone you came from |
FLUTE | a musical instrument |
LESIONS | a region in an organ or tissue which has suffered damage through injury or disease, such as a wound, ulcer, abscess, or tumor |
BRAIN | an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity |
REACHED OUT | contacted |
SAGE | a type of herb |
SMUDGE | the burning of sacred herbs |
BEADING | the craft or pastime of stringing together to make jewelry or other decorative items |
COMFORTING | serving to improve a person's mood or restore a sense of physical well-being |
SOUL | the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal |