The Road of Life and Death

Download or read book The Road of Life and Death written by Paul Radin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.