Peyote songs are sung through the night at the Native American Church's peyote meeting, a structured all-night ceremony centered on the sacramental use of peyote, accompanied by a water drum and rattle and following a set order of ritual songs that guide participants from the meeting's opening through midnight water rites to its dawn close. The songs, largely in vocables rather than ordinary lexical words, are understood as a vehicle carrying prayer and as themselves possessing a healing function for those gathered, comparable in that healing role to the icaros sung in Amazonian ayahuasca ceremonies already recorded here.
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StructureSung through the night in a set order guiding participants from the meeting's opening through midnight water rites to its dawn close, accompanied by a water drum and rattle; the songs are largely in vocables rather than ordinary lexical words. 1 Practice
Liturgical and Scriptural RoleUnderstood as a vehicle carrying prayer and as itself possessing a healing function for those gathered at the Native American Church's all-night peyote meeting. 1 Origins
RegionNative American Church communities in the United States and Canada. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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