Talk:Rainmaking (ritual)

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Does anybody know how they do in Indonesia? Is one of the rites shown in the film The Rainmaker pertain to any kind of rain dance? Samnikal 09:07, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

does it work?
This article would be improved with both sides of the argument for the effectiveness of rain dancing.

Also how do you do it? Link a website to that

Any effect of Indian rain dancing?
I've heard that American Indians did the specefic form of rain dancing, which was far more than "magical rituals". They are said to have gathered and danced around large bonfires, set on a dusty desert or prairie. This, along with the hot air above the bonfire, caused a lot of dust, mixed with bonfire smoke, to move up, very high into the atmosphere, which in turn caused the moisture to condense and was a primitive form of cloud seeding. Is such a scenario possible? If it is, that it's much more than "magical ritual", it'd be rather a simple technology. Anyway, I'm very interested in this. Cheers, Critto (talk) 12:30, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes
I live in the SouthWest US (Arizona) and our summer rain season is characterized by rain following a dust storm whenever the dew point is above about 55F. It isn't hard to imagine that over time the local tribes noticed this pattern of a dry spring being "broken" by a dust storm on a humid day. It would be pretty obvious then, for someone to suggest kicking up a lot of dust to trigger rain - if you have a tribe of thousands all kicking dust it might look a lot like dancing... and why not enjoy yourself? Looks completely obvious and not magical at all to me. - Eric

other magic weather control methods
If any others exist then link to them
 * Like this one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ban Bridges (talk • contribs) 14:31, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

"indigenous peoples"
The part about "a story from the indigenous peoples" has multiple problems in it. First, it's ridiculous to say "the indigenous peoples" as if North Americans were a monolithic group - sort of like saying "a story from the Europeans". If there is/was such a story, either it came from a specific tribe which should be noted, or it was passed around from tribe to tribe, which is unlikely and thus should definitely be noted.

Additionally, this story is not given any source whatsoever and thus should really be certified in some manner.

162.84.184.44 (talk) 10:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

The story
There seems to be a problem in the paragraph about the story. Mainly, unless I am misreading it, it says the government banned certain ceremonies (including the rain dance) and a tribe which was banned from doing the sun dance told the government it was the rain dance and as such were allowed to do it... but wasn't the rain dance all ready banned? They were allowed to do a banned dance because they said it was a different dance which was also banned?? Creol (talk) 19:03, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Computer Jargon?
Does this belong here? Kortoso (talk) 20:18, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Obscure reference?
 * Vandalism?
 * Accident?
 * Fixed what I presume was an error. Mitch Ames (talk) 10:09, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Ethnography?
Does this term unfairly bias the visitor against the possible validity of the techniques? It seems judgmental.


 * Why would it? Kortoso (talk) 19:15, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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