In any culture, but especially in societies that primarily focus on oral traditions, language is life. Words become the symbolic representation of spiritual, mythic, and historical beliefs. Utilizing this component, the Zuni have made the very words sacred. Present in every native religion is song.
Music carries our prayers to the very heavens.
Jewish, Muslim, and Native religions celebrate the sacred, express thanksgiving, and offer prayers through song. Primarily, the chant is a prayer, a please for life-sustaining elements. Sacred and holy, the priests name all that has created them, all that continues to sustain them. The repetition of chant also ensures, through repetitive song, that the traditions and the ceremony that continue to sustain their environmental life will not be forgotten and will continue to be named, to be holy, forever. While covering a lot of ground and making a number of valuable points, it is always carefully organized.