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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: mohawk-condolence-ceremony
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title: Condolence Ceremony
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description: >-
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A Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) ritual for clearing grief and restoring a
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leader, performed when a chief dies or is removed. Central to the Great
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Law of Peace (Gayanashagowa), it uses prescribed words, wampum, and
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actions to clear the mind of grief.
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source: Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace
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source_url: https://www.haudenosaunee.org/
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tags: [haudenosaunee, iroquois, condolence, grief, indigenous, governance]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Roll call and lament
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description: >-
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The gathered nations perform a roll call across the confederacy. The
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mourners' grief is acknowledged through formal lamentation.
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- headline: Clear the eyes, ears, and throat
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description: >-
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The officiating chief performs the requickening words, symbolically
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clearing the eyes (tears), ears (blocked hearing), and throat
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(strangled speech) of the mourners using prescribed phrases.
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- headline: Wipe the body
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description: >-
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Symbolic wiping of the body with wampum clears grief from the
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mourners, restoring their ability to act.
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- headline: Install the successor
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description: >-
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A new chief is raised up (requickened) in the place of the departed,
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receiving the title and obligations of the office.
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- headline: Confirm the chain of friendship
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description: >-
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The condolence closes with a reaffirmation of the confederacy's
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unity, the chain of friendship renewed among the nations.
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outcome: >-
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Grief is ritually cleared so the mourners and the confederacy can act
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again; leadership is restored without rupture.
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practice: >-
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The words and actions are prescribed by the Great Law and must be
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performed correctly — this is not improvisation. The requickening is
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both grief work and governance. |