Navajo Sand Painting Analysis

Three years ago, I had the flu for two weeks; I felt so tired and couldn’t get up from my bed. Although I went to the doctor and got my medicine, I wasn’t cured. At that days, a Filipino housemaid was working for us her name is Martina. She asked me if I would like to try the traditional Filipino medicine to cure me from the flu and I agreed. At that same moment, she boiled water and added some fresh lemon then she waited for it to become warm, and gave it to me. I told Martina to make that traditional medicine for me twice a day and she did for four days until I cured from that illness. Because of this experience of using traditional medicine to heal, I was interested in the essay “Navajo Sand Painting.”
In “Navajo Sand Painting” the author …show more content…
I oppose that idea because it is a myth and unbelievable. Not all what you believe or others believe is true, it might be wrong. For example, for some nations they think that if they dance the rain will fall. When they are dancing, the cloud mainly contains rain, so when the rain falls they think that it is because they danced for it. Like for Navajo’s sand painting, when the person was sick and used the Navajo painting and got well, he might think that because he used the Navajo’s painting, but that main reason of getting well is because god already gave him back to health.
Finally, I agree with the author when he writes, “Some Navajo say that sand painting are part of their religion and should not be sold.” The author means that there are some people who use the Navajo sand painting to decorate the carpets and sell them while others use them as an encaustic to show them in an art museum and sell them. I think that we should keep our traditions and not use them as a part of business. Therefore, sand painting is a part of Navajo’s ceremony tradition there is no right for anyone to use them in something else and benefit from