Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Haokah" | Lakota | Haokah is a god of thunder and lightning. His emotions are portrayed opposite the norm; he laughs when he is sad and cries when he is happy. In art, he is depicted as having two horns. Lakota |
Goddess name "Hihankara" | Lakota | Goddess of the milky Way Lakota |
Goddess name "Inyan" | Lakota | The first of the superior Gods. Uncreated and existing before time, he created Maka and gave it the earth Goddess Maka-akan, the second of the superior Gods and a part of Inyan. Creating Maka required all of Inyan's blood, which was blue, to form a great disk, beyond which there was nothing. This effort made Inyan hard and powerless. His blood became the blue waters and the sky, and Nagi Tanka (Sky God), the Great spirit who is all powerful and called Skan (Most Holy), the third superior God. Lakota |
Goddess name "Whope" | Lakota | The daughter of the Sun Wi and the moon, a goddess of peace and the wife of the south wind. Lakota |
God name "Wi" | Lakota | The Sun god of the Lakota. |
Goddess name "Wopeh" | Lakota | Goddess of happiness and pleasure. Lakota |