The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) (Bollingen Series (General))

by Paul Radin

In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.

• ISBN10: 0691019169
• ISBN13: 9780691019161
• Publish Date: 21 April 1991 (first published 21 November 1945)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Princeton University Press
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 368
• Language: English
• URL: https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691019161