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| As Pueblo people we believe that we can and do, at times, transform into other entities such as animals, clouds, or spirit beings. One such time is during our dances, or ceremonies in which drums and singers sing songs of prayers to the entities of the cosmos, asking for life, but also acting as transmiters to give life. One of these such "dances" is our corn dance or harvest dance. This is in celebration of the year's harvest, but at a deeper level, it is about life . . . the coming together of all the forces around us that create and make life possible. We live in a world of patterns and symbols. Everything has a meaning and is a part of the story of life. At the point that a dancer has gathered the different forces around her/him which are symbolized by the different dance articles he or she wears, that person is no longer an individual, but has transformed into a spiritual being connected to the greater whole.
As these figures are fastening and tieing peices of their dance clothing on, they are also transforming into corn maidens. One figure has completed the transformation and is truely a corn maiden entitiy. The other three are in different stages of change. A simple but capturing moment of the essence of the Pueblo World. |
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