blessing way

blessing way
 n.— «The informant of the xójợ-djí, or blessing way…had little to say of additional peoples beyond the curt remark that the four clans would meet some relatives iợn the Navaho country.…Their sacred names in the xójợ-djí or blessing way.» —“Social Life of the Navajo Indians” by O.F.M. Father Berard American Anthropologist Oct.-Dec., 1932. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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