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Got that Old Time Religion

Scattered about the
Navaho reservation
are many cairn shrines

The Navaho
when alone
or in parties

on approaching
one of these
gathers a few twigs
of pinon or cedar

places them
on the shrine
scatters a pinch
of sacred meal upon it

And makes supplication
for that which he may
habitually need or which

the moment demands.


-Edward Curtis
Written by clewluss (SMOOKY)
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