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| 35 | 127 | I did not View more quotes about follow">follow the order of the ritual in all respects nor keep the ceremony in the exactitude of all its details. |
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| 35 | 124 | Suffice it to say that the ceremony of the sweat lodge is a detailed, complex, sophisticated and highly symbolic ritual. |
| 35 | 125 | The purification of the bather is its principal objective, the readying of the bather for the awesome task of seeking the dream or vision. |
| 35 | 126 | My helpers, tending the fire and aiding with the stones, were Canka and Cuwignaka. |
| 35 | 127 | I did not follow the order of the ritual in all respects nor keep the ceremony in the exactitude of all its details. |
| 35 | 128 | I would not do this because of reservations on my part, having primarily to do with skepticism concerning the existence of a medicine world, and because I was not Kaiila. |
| 35 | 129 | Not being Kaiila I would have felt it improper or irreverent, if not dishonest, profane, sacrilegious or blasphemous, to do so. |
| 35 | 130 | My feelings and decisions in these matters were understood and respected by Canka as well as Cuwignaka. |