How to perform a rain dance

How to Do a Rain Dance ~ Native American Rain Dance

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Native American Rain Dance

When reading about the history of our country and in particular, the Native Americans many people have heard of a ceremonial tradition that is known as the Native American rain dance. The Native American rain dance was the most common among the Native American tribes in the southwest of America, since during the summers there they would have long droughts.

The droughts could bring serious problems for the natives since having some rain was essential for their survival and their food crops. The rain dance would usually take place in the driest month of the year, so usually this ritual was performed in mid to late August ever year. The Native American rain dance was performed by both the men and women of the tribe, unlike other tribal rituals where only men were allowed.

The Native Americans wore special costumes when performing the Native American rain dance ceremony, and these costumes were used just for this specific ceremony every year. The men would have long hair waving in the ceremony and the women wore their hair in a special tribal wrap at the sides of their heads. The mask that the Indian men wear is a mask with a turquoise strip that stretches from ear to ear across the face of the mask. Then the bottom is a band of blue, yellow, and red rectangles. A fringe of horsehair hangs from the bottom which covers the throat and three white feathers hang from the top of the male mask. The women’s mask is somewhat similar but instead of a turquoise stripe theirs is white and they do not have the rectangles on the bottom or the horsehair. The women’s masks also have goat hair around the top and an Eagles feather hangs over their face. The men also have their bodies painted up by tribal standards and wear special beads and they wore a fox skin hung behind them and also a silver bracelet and white apron type cloth. They also wore turquoise moccasins. The women wore a black dress and no parts of their bodies were shown except their bare feet. Then they wore a bright colored shawl with one black and one white shawl over that. Then they all lined up and performed the Native American rain dance in hopes of bringing the rain that they desperately need. Many reservations in the southwest still perform this ritual to this day.

Basic Guidelines on How To Rain Dance

(everyone/tribe is unique, be creative, remembering to honor the earth. nothing can be taken less something given.)

1. Never do a rain dance on a hill.
2. Make sure you have a lot of room so you don’t run into anything.
3. Spin around in clockwise circles.
4. Make up your own rain chant. It should be rhythmical
and easy to say fast.
5. Yell your rain chant while spinning around in circles.
6. If you are trying to get rid of rain, spin in counterclockwise circles and say your chant backward

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Instructions on how to do a rain dance

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By Andrew Wu

December 7, 2010 — 3.00am

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Memo all Australian cricket fans. Before heading to work or school today, take a few minutes out of your day to perform a Native American rain dance. The steps are simple. The nation will thank you.

1. Find a large open area where you feel inspired and comfortable to dance (alas, Australian cricket stadiums no longer qualify).

If the dance doesn't cut it, maybe animal sacrifice is the last resort. Or (below) there's always an early present from Santa and his mates.Credit:Reuters

2.Decide on your Native American rain chant. It should be rhythmic and easily repeated. ''Oi oi oi'' does not count.

3. Now comes the athletic component. Raise your hands to the sky and spin in a clockwise direction, chanting softly. Close your eyes, feel the wind at your face and soak in the atmosphere. (Much like Phil Tuffnel under the high ball).

4. Gradually spin faster while chanting louder until you are spinning as fast as you can and yelling at the top of your voice (Tuffers again).

5. Continue as long as you please before stopping abruptly and dropping to your knees.

Refrain at all costs from spinning anti-clockwise and chanting backwards as that makes rain go away. (Warning: Do not tell English associates of last sentence.) Courtesy ehow.com.

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Rain Dance | Rain and interesting things about rain

Our modern life is not well suited for strange people. You object, you say that any time is not suitable for them? Perhaps, but a long time ago, I remember, those who stood out from the general mass, although they were called holy fools, but they were considered close to God ...

Yes, and in fairy tales, foolish Ivanushkas are usually lucky at the end. Not like nowadays! In the 21st century, being different from everyone else is quite difficult, and sometimes very dangerous! You say it's an exaggeration? Not at all.

Even in childhood, kind-hearted relatives pitifully shook their heads - they say, a strange girl is growing up. All normal children cannot stand rain, they are afraid of lightning, and they completely run away from thunder, headlong, but this one ...

Meanwhile, she didn’t even want to listen, as soon as the first drops hit the glass, she instantly climbed onto the windowsill and pressed her nose to the window - and listened, listened ... Yes, what could she hear there, at her 3-4 years old ?!

And then she came up with an idea - to dance in the rain! She seemed to feel that it was going to rain soon, even if nothing was said about it, and ran out into the street by hook or by crook. Well, this dance in the rain was strange!

That's when they began to talk openly: "And the girl they have, that ... crazy, dancing in the rain!" Mom, as soon as she tried to stop these attempts to arrange another dance in the rain - nothing helped! They even tried to lock her at home, not letting her out into the street - it was useless.

One day she just opened the window and stood on the windowsill, somehow managed to take off, after all, the third floor. So they waved their hand, well, she wants to spin in the rain - yes to health! By the way, about health: she managed to never catch a cold even under the coldest rain! As if the meaning of her whole life was to perform this almost ritual dance in the rain every time ...

They even sent her to a dance studio, but something didn't work out for her there. The teachers complained that she was trying to dance on her own, and it was rare that any lessons made her very excited. Here she grasped everything on the fly, but chose only those movements that she personally needed. Mom sighed, regularly paid for the studio every month and furtively shoved a couple more bills into the hand of the teacher, whispering pitifully: “You don’t kick her out, she’s just special with me ...”

Apparently, she needed this dance in the rain so much, if stubbornly, over and over again, she jumped out under the cold streams and began to dance. If you look at it quite objectively, then it turned out better and better for her. Perhaps the spectacle could be called bewitching, if not for the strangeness of the situation itself - a dance in the rain. Yes, what to take from her - abnormal!

This is how she lived, not understood by anyone, but, in general, not particularly suffering from this. According to the laws of life, sooner or later she had to be sent to a lunatic asylum.

But according to the laws of a fairy tale ... No, he was not considered abnormal at all, the most ordinary guy. Well, maybe a little weird. Is that what all guys from 16 to 25 (30, 40, all their lives.