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Symbols
Pre-Ordeal
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Tradition
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100
This is the symbol of our Order.
What is the Arrow?
100
This is Kichkinet's role in the ceremony, and what he symbolizes.
Who is the Guide? He represents helpfulness and friendliness.
100
The rope you were bound together at the beginning of the Ordeal ceremony represents this.
What were the ties of Brotherhood until you took the obligation?
100
The totem of our lodge.
What is the (running) deer?
100
This is the admonition of our Order, and its meaning in the language of the Lenni Lenape.
What is "Ahoalton," which means "to love one another"?
200
In the ceremony, the Arrow represents this.
What is leadership and service.
200
This is Nutiket's role in the ceremony, and what he symbolizes.
Who is the Guard? He represents Cheerfulness.
200
Kichkinet calls the attention of each of the principles with three taps on the left shoulder representing this.
What are the 3 parts of the Scout Oath?
200
This is where the name of our lodge comes from.
Who is the spirit of Pamola, who was believed to have inhabited Mt. Katahdin?
200
This is the name of our Order in the Language of the Lenni Lenape and it's meaning in English.
What is Wimachtendienk, Wingolauchsik, Witahemui? It means the "Brotherhood of Cheerful Service."
300
What the bow represents in the ceremony.
What is Cheerfulness, for "a cheerful heart is lively as this bow-wood, under hardship"?
300
This is Allowat Sakima's role in the ceremony, and what he symbolizes.
Who is the Mighty Chief? He represents Service.
300
Each of the ceremonialists respond to Kichkinet's 3 taps with two taps representing this.
What are the 12 points of the Scout Law?
300
The Order of the Arrow was founded at this year and place.
When is Treasure Island in 1915?
300
This is the sign of the Ordeal. (Demonstrate or describe)
*From the Ordeal Ceremony* "The hailing sign of the Ordeal is made with the right hand over the left shoulder moving as if drawing an arrow from a quiver."
400
What the bowstring represents.
What is Brotherhood?
400
This is Meteu's role in the ceremony, and what he symbolizes.
Who is the Medicine Man? He is the representative of brotherhood.
400
You were stopped along the trail by this principle and asked if you had completed the Ordeal without flinching.
Who is Nutiket?
400
The two founders of the Order of the Arrow.
Who are E. Urner Goodman and Carol A. Edson?
400
This is the handclasp of the Ordeal. (Demonstrate or describe)
The handclasp is made with the left hand. The "pinky" fingers are interlocked to represent the bond of Brotherhood.
500
The initial membership in the Order is called this for this reason.
What is the Ordeal, because it is preceded by a fourfold ordeal?
500
This is the challenge that you completed during the preordeal ceremony to "give proof in silence of [your] will to make the journey."
What is testing the bow?
500
They are the central figures in the legend that Meteu gives.
Who are the aged Chieftain, Chingachgook, and his son, Uncas, who by their cheerful and self-sacrificing, are said to have saved the Delaware lodges from annihilation?
500
The legend of our Order is based upon this group.
Who are the Delaware Indians, the Lenni Lenape?
500
This is the Obligation.
What is: I do hereby promise on my honor as a Scout, that I will always and faithfully observe and preserve the traditions of the Order of the Arrow, Wimachtendienk, Wingolauchsik, Witahemui. I will always regard the ties of Brotherhood in the Order of the Arrow as lasting, and will seek to preserve a Cheerful spirit, even in the midst of irksome tasks and weighty responsibilities, and will endeavor, so far as in my power lies, to be unselfish in Service and devotion to the welfare of others.