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Sacred clowns, are a characteristic feature of the ritual life of many traditional religions, and they typically employ scatology and sexual obscenities. Ritual clowning is where comedy and satire originated; in Ancient Greece, ritual clowning, phallic processions and ritual aischrologia found their literary form in the plays of Aristophanes. Two famous examples of ritual clowns in North America are the Koyemshis (also known as Koyemshi, Koyemci or Mudheads) and the Newekwe (also spelled…

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To the Apache people, the Clown is a sacred being with great power given to him by Thunder; he represents just what the power of thunder provokes, fear from a tremendous power in the sky, greater than anything that we see on the earth. In this way, the manner of the Clown "fooling around" is anything but trite; instead, this is a serious spiritual element to a ceremony reflecting the randomness of misfortune in his seemingly mad behavior, just as nature reminds us of our own mortality.... Sacred Clown, Turtle Island, Fooling Around, Native American History, Pow Wow, Great Power, The Clown, American Culture, Native Art

The Clown dances among the other four Apache Crown Dancers; each of them representing one of the four principal compass points - north, south, east, and west, in addition to the Mountain Spirits To the Apache people, the Clown is a sacred being with great power given to him by Thunder; he represents just what the power of thunder provokes, fear from a tremendous power in the sky, greater than anything that we see on the earth. In this way, the manner of the Clown "fooling around" is anything…

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