By Cristina Colli
A friend of mine just introduced me to a beautiful Navajo chant, “In Beauty May I walk”.
The Navajo word Hózhó from this chant is translated with “beauty” or “beautiful conditions”. The word beauty, however, expresses a much more complex concept: beauty represents “the intellectual aspect of order, the feeling of happiness, the physical state of health, the moral condition of good, and the aesthetic dimension of harmony.” (Gary Witherspoon)
In the Navajo tradition, the Beautyway (or Nightway) is a ceremony that’s meant to re-incorporate the patient into the harmonious universe, bringing harmony and balance back into... More...
