Busk festival
North American Indian ritual
Also known as: Green Corn festival
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Creek culture
- In Muscogee: Pre-colonial culture
…important religious observances as the Busk, or Green Corn, ceremony, an annual first-fruits and new-fire rite. A distinctive feature of this midsummer festival was that every wrongdoing, grievance, or crime—short of murder—was forgiven.
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Natchez culture
Southeast American Indian culture
- In Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast: Belief systems
…the Green Corn ceremony, or Busk, throughout the Southeast. This was a major ceremonial suffused with an ethos of annual renewal in which the sacred fire—and often the hearth fire of each home—was rekindled; old debts and grudges were forgiven and forgotten; old clothing and stored food were discarded; and…
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