It was a ceremony that was a pledge of universal fraternal or paternal love. It also entailed reconciliation between those who had quarreled during the previous year. It symbolized the uniting of the people with the Creator and purification of body and mind. The New Moon Ceremony was said to have been the most profoundly religious of all the ceremonies. As with other observances, it also involved the rekindling of the scared fire. Bouncing Bush Ceremony Exalting Bush Festival - This was a joyous ceremony were the Cherokee expressed unrestrained joy giving thanks to the Great Spirit and his helpers, acknowledging them as the source of our blessings.
Dancing and feasting abound, and thansgiving was expressed by everyone tossing an offering of sacred tobacco in the sacred fire. Fruits from the previous fall harvest were brought to ceremony and consumed to remember the continuation of the Creator's care and blessing. This festival initiated the planting season and incorporated predictions concerning crop success or failure.
It lasted seven days and included dancing and the re-lighting of the sacred fire by the "fire-keeper". There ceremony included sacrificing a deer tongue in the fire. All the home fires were extinguished and rekindled from the sacred fire's coals, symbolizing fresh beginnings, and renewal of life from Mother Earth. New corn was not to be eaten until after the ceremony took place. Messengers were sent to notify the towns of the nation about when the celebration would take place.
Along the way they gathered seven ears of corn, each from a field of a different clan. After the messengers returned, the chief and seven councilors fasted for six days. Traditionally, the Cherokee National Holiday draws more than , visitors from both Oklahoma and out of state on Labor Day weekend. Cherokee Nation will safely proceed with a variety of events that allow for smaller, safe gatherings, while also remaining cautious by postponing events that traditionally draw larger public gatherings.
The art market event will include a controlled setting requiring patrons and vendors to socially distance and wear masks. Drive-In Movie Nights, a gospel singing, fiddlers contest, the annual car show, quilt show and fireworks show are also part of the safe, in-person lineup. The Cherokee Nation is also working on plans for an outdoor intertribal powwow that will include limited opportunities for in-person attendance along with live-streaming of the event, which can be watched around the world.
Larger events such as the annual parade, fishing derby, softball tournament, traditional games, and Cherokee Heritage Center and One Fire Field arts-and-crafts food and vendor markets, will return to normal in July Gu-ye-gwo-ni Fruit Moon August Ga-lo-ni Nut Moon September Du-li-i-s-di Harvest Moon October Du-ni-nu-di Trading Moon November Nu-da-de-qua Snow Moon This time of the season is a time for personal and ritual observance, fasting and personal purification.
During this season, families prepare for the coming of the new seasons, starting in Windy Moon Anuyi or March. Personal items and tools for planting are repaired, and new ones made. Stories about ancestors and the family are imparted to the younger ones by the elders.
A mid-Winter or "Cold Moon Dance" is usually held in the community as well, marking the passing or ending of one cycle of seasons and welcoming the beginning of the new cycle. Hearth fires are put out and new ones made. The putting out of Fires and lighting of new ones anciently is the duty of certain "priest" of certain clans, and coincides with the first new-arrival of the morning star Sun's daughter, now called Venus in the east.
Traditional time of personal-family feast for the ones who had departed this world. A family meal is prepared with place s set for the departed. This is also a time of fasting and ritual observance. A community dance officiated by a "doctor" Didanawiskawi commonly referred to as a Medicine-person. Connected to this moon is the "Medicine Dance". Traditional start of the new cycle of planting seasons or Moons. New town council fires are made. The figure used to portray this moon is the historic figure of Kanati, one of the many beings created by the "Apportioner" Unethlana.
Their domains are the sky, earth, stars and the Seven Levels of the universe. First plants of the season come out at this time. New births are customary within this time frame. The first new medicine and herb plants that taught mankind how to defend against sickness and injury come out now.
Streams and rivers controlled by the spirit being, "Long Man," renew their lives.
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