[DOC] [TLE] Hopi Snake Dance History by Brownielocks. [PAR] The dance originates to the earliest form of life in the Native American Hopi tribe 
beliefs. ... During the last 4 days, the Snake priests leave their villages to gather 
snakes, ... At one time, these runners were naked with their hair loose to imitate 
falling rain. ... They carry the snake first in their hands and then in their mouths!!! [DOC] [TLE] Hopi Snake Dance - Encyclopedia - The Free Dictionary [PAR] The Hopi Snake Dance is a Native American religious ceremony. ... since the 
Hopis regard snakes as their "brothers" and rely on them to carry their ... they can 
carry the prayer for rain from the mouths of the priests to the underworld, where 
the ... These bands are separated by black lines and represent the cardinal 
points of... [DOC] [TLE] Native American Dances - History and Information - Page 3 [PAR] Hopi Snake Dance - The most widely publicized of Hopi rituals was the Snake 
Dance, ... in late August, during which the performers dance with live snakes in 
their mouths. ... The tribe regards snakes as their "brothers" and rely on them to 
carry their ... These special clothes and accessories which were worn during the 
rain... [DOC] [TLE] Representing the Hopi Snake Dance - Journal for the ... [PAR] Snake priests carried live snakes, many of them rattlesnakes, in their mouths. ... 
defuse the power these images and texts exert over readers, viewers, and the ... 
Snake dance seemed to serve the interests of Indian assimilation through. [DOC] [TLE] The Hopi Snake Dance. - Description [PAR] the Hopi tribe of Pue- blo Indians, of northeastern Ari- zona, have been known to 
white ... *These are the writings of Jesse Walter Fewkes of the United States ... 
their mouths, dance with them, and com- ..... Priests Carrying Snakes in Mouth. [DOC] [TLE] About Native Americans: About the Hopi Snake Myth and Dance [PAR] Complete historical description of the Hopi Snake myth and and dance. ... 
Possibly something of the significance of parts of its complicated ritual may have 
been .... the Snake Dance, but shorter and simpler, and here corn is carried 
instead of snakes. ... These runners were Snake priests, all elderly men, and as 
each in turn... [DOC] [TLE] Hopi Snake Dance article, historic movie [PAR] Nov 28, 2012 ... SNAKE-ANTELOPE CEREMONY OR FLUTE CEREMONY today are performed 
in ... This dance is NOT open to non-Indians. ... In the final phase, the snake 
priests dance with snakes in their mouth consummating this union. ... Thus the 
Hopi dancers carry snakes in their mouths to impart prayers to them. [DOC] [TLE] Hopi Snake Dance - The Inquiry Net [PAR] The SNAKE DANCE is performed by the Hopi Indians on their Reservation in the 
... The snakes are the emissaries to the Rain Powers, and are held very sacred 
by the Indians. ... In their hands, they carried each a rattle and a bag of sacred 
meal. .... of a dancer by a snake, but these Snake Priests are immune to the 
poison. [DOC] [TLE] Hopi Snake Washing - JStor [PAR] considered in an exhaustive account of the Hopi Snake Dance which I have in ... 
tails of Snake washing in a kiva where there is no altar have ... typical of these 
ceremonials in four pueblos, I have thought it ... Before that year no one except 
Indian members of the ... the older and more conservative priests strongly 
objected. It. [DOC] [TLE] PDF (1.7MB) - Wiley Online Library [PAR] aborigines at the tinie of their coilquest and those which are at present performed 
in the ... Snake Dance of the Indians of the Hopi (Moki) pueblos. In the 
preparation of my ... celebrated a festival in which snakes were carried in the 
mouth, ..... One of the most interesting habits of these clown-priests of the Mayas 
was their... [DOC] [TLE] Hopi - Crystalinks [PAR] Hopi is a concept deeply rooted in the culture's religion, spirituality, and its ... to 
be at peace with these things, and to live in accordance with the teachings of

Question: In Hopi Indian snake dances, priests carry these snakes in their mouths
Answer: Rattlesnakes