If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!In connection with yesterday’s post about early Christian purification ordinances, isn’t it interesting that we find very similar practices in the new world, among those whose culture, beliefs, traditions, history, and religion seem [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged anointing, boyd petersen, ceremony, hugh nibley, native american, rites, ritual, robe, symbols, washing
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February 6, 2008 – 9:05 am
Hugh Nibley had a fascination with the Hopi Indian tribes of northeastern Arizona. He believed that the Hopi captured something about life that the rest of the world had missed. Their culture, traditions, and ceremonies were stable and permanent. They did not look to the conveniences of the day, and yet had [...]