Does anyone know how to do a sundance that brings the sun out from behind the clouds?

Question

Does anyone know how to do a sundance that brings the sun out from behind the clouds?

Answer 1

The Sun Dance was popular among several Plains Indians groups, and while it really has nothing to do with the question you asked I couldn't help but bring it up. You have to love a ceremony that is so controversial it was banned from being practiced in the United States for several years. Feel free to try it at home as it is legal now. All you need is a sweat lodge, a bison skull, and the ability to endure ridiculous pain. (Piercing aficionados take note.) Again, not really directly related to what you're saying in anything but name, but it was posted under anthropology so I decided to get nerdy. I left details out, but if anyone is interested  check out the links below. There was actually a movie made in the 70s where an actor actually participated in the ceremony in character. Random note there.

Answer 2

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how to do a sundance that brings the sun from behind the clouds?

Answer 3

Yeah, the movie was "A Man Called Horse."  The Sundance of the Northern Plains nations  (primarily among the Sioux and Cheyenne) is an annual religious observance in which the participants dance for several days (generally four).  The dancing and piercings/cuttings are regarded as a form of personal sacrifice on behalf of the greater good... that is, one's tribe.  Men are pierced, generally on the chest and back.  Women participants will cut themselves, frequently on the upper arm.  To be selected as the individual who is tethered to the buffalo skull is to be granted a great honor.  That individual will dance until the leather tether breaks.  Needless to say, dancing in the summer sun with piercings and cuttings, is all physically exhausting.  So usually the Sundance is done by those who are young and at the peak of physical conditioning, although tribal members of all ages will be present and participate by singing and drumming.  Because of the increased interest in the Sundance by non-Native peoples in recent years, some traditionalists have become much more reserved about admitting outsiders to the ceremony.  Generally it is best to be there by invitation.

Answer 4

Find at least 5 sunflower heads and wear them on a big floppy hat.  Go to a very dry and sandy place with little water spots like a desert or Savannah.  Wear red and yellow, and eat chili peppers.  Put on a lot of clothes and furry boots then start dancing sun-wise around in a spiral.

Chant "Shy in Shy Anne, Shy in Shy Anne, yell low yell low, he eat, he eats, the roast the roast, that smoking joint.  Byrne Burns rob Bert Burns, Fie ire or smoking pot hash the embers.

Answer 5

First you have to be naked...Second, you have to really want the sun to come out.  So much that you can think about nothing but this sun and how good the rays will feel on your face.    You should be so happy that you'll just start dancing haphazardly in your own way.  THATS OK...just direct all of the dance's energy toward the sun and he'll peek his head out from the clouds.

Answer 6

Little darlin'....it's been a long, cold lonely winter....

Here comes the sun....and I say, it's all right!

Answer 7

I would PATENT that dance and keep it for LIFE!

Answer 8

I tried a sun dance once.

It rained for three days!

lol