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Busk festival

North American Indian ritual
Also known as: Green Corn festival

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Creek culture

  • Creek: Me-Na-Wa
    In Creek

    …important religious observances as the Busk, or Green Corn, ceremony, an annual first-fruits and new-fire rite. A distinctive feature of this midsummer festival was that every wrongdoing, grievance, or crime—short of murder—was forgiven.

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Natchez culture

  • Natchez house and granary
    In Natchez

    …midsummer Green Corn ceremony, or Busk. The sacred fire was remade at dawn of the festival day, and all the village hearths were then lit anew from the sacred flames.

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Southeast American Indian culture

  • Distribution of Southeast American Indian cultures
    In Southeast Indian: Belief systems

    …the Green Corn ceremony, or Busk, throughout the Southeast. This was a major ceremonial suffused with an ethos of annual renewal in which the sacred fire—and often the hearth fires of each home—was rekindled; old debts and grudges were forgiven and forgotten; old clothing and stored food were discarded; and…

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