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Blessing Way
The Blessing Way is one half of the major Navajo song ceremonial complexes, the other half being the Enemy Way. The rites and prayers in the Blessing Way are concerned with healing, creation, harmony and peace. The song cycles recount the elaborate Navajo creation story related to the rites contained within the Blessing Way.
Perhaps the most important of all these rituals is the Kinaaldá ceremony, in which a young girl makes the transition to womanhood upon her menarche.〔Joanne McCloskey, ''Living Through the Generations: Continuity And Change in Navajo Women's Lives'', University of Arizona Press, 2007, (pp. 159–162 ), ISBN 0-8165-2631-1.〕 During the course of the ceremony, the girl enacts the part of Changing Woman (),〔 the deity responsible for fertility entering the world. The Kinaaldá ceremony includes the girl demonstrating endurance by ritualised running, each dawn over a period of several days, as well as a hair-combing ritual and the baking of a large corn cake, or alkaan.〔〔Jordan D. Paper, ''Native North American Religious Traditions: Dancing for Life'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, (pp. 95–97 ), ISBN 0-2759-9097-4.〕〔Alice N. Nash and Christoph Strobel, ''Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian Through Nineteenth-Century America'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, (p. 152 ), ISBN 0-3133-3515-X.〕
Ceremonies regarding expectant mothers are also part of the Blessing Way. However, these are not to be confused with some ceremonies held by other cultures for expectant mothers, which may also be called Blessing Way ceremonies regardless of their actual connection with the Navajo Blessing Way.
==See also==
* The red road
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