PEOPLE - Kinaalda: The Navajo Puberty Ritual (Video)

Take a rare look inside the world of an ancient and sacred ceremonyWhen a Navajo girl reaches puberty (the time of her first menstruation), she undergoes a four day ceremony called Kinaalda which signifies her transformation from childhood into womanhood. The ceremony is centered around the Navajo myth of Changing woman, the first woman on Earth who was able to bear children. The myth says that Changing Woman performed the first Kinaalda and that ...

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