The trends of ceremonies suggests the continuity between life and death. The key of the Sun Dance is regeneration. The Sun Dance indicates the renew of life and never ending, as well as mentions about the symbolic of the Sun Dance- the real cycle of death and rebirth. In addition, the other elements of the Sun Dance are: it was usually preceded by a sweat-lodge ceremony for purification; Dancers danced around a cottonwood pole (symbolizing the grandfather) for a period of days, during which they fast and abstained from drink; The male dancers may have undergone a piercing in which: cuts are made to the chest or back and a wooden skewer is inserted through the wounds and the dancers and are tied to buffalo skulls or to a ceremonial cottonwood pole in the center of the camp; The dancers then underwent self-torture designed to extricate themselves from the skewers. The dancers danced to a drumbeat often to special arrangements of dance steps; Offerings, were typically made, special songs are sung, and incantations per prayers are recited; Sacrifice of the buffalo, which the animal symbol of the sun was part of the
The trends of ceremonies suggests the continuity between life and death. The key of the Sun Dance is regeneration. The Sun Dance indicates the renew of life and never ending, as well as mentions about the symbolic of the Sun Dance- the real cycle of death and rebirth. In addition, the other elements of the Sun Dance are: it was usually preceded by a sweat-lodge ceremony for purification; Dancers danced around a cottonwood pole (symbolizing the grandfather) for a period of days, during which they fast and abstained from drink; The male dancers may have undergone a piercing in which: cuts are made to the chest or back and a wooden skewer is inserted through the wounds and the dancers and are tied to buffalo skulls or to a ceremonial cottonwood pole in the center of the camp; The dancers then underwent self-torture designed to extricate themselves from the skewers. The dancers danced to a drumbeat often to special arrangements of dance steps; Offerings, were typically made, special songs are sung, and incantations per prayers are recited; Sacrifice of the buffalo, which the animal symbol of the sun was part of the