Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Anog Ite" | Lakota | Double-Face Woman. Caught while attempting to replace Hanwi by seducing Wi, She is condemned to bear two faces, one beuatiful and the other hideous. Lakota |
Spirit name "Anp" | Lakota | spirit of light, especially the reddish Sunlight of dawn. Lakota |
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 |
Spirit name "Iya" | Lake | The Stone Child killed the evil spirit Iya. That's how the Great Salt lake was formed, from the blood of Iya. When you find a Stone Child, a perfectly round stone, the Stone Child will bring you home. - Lakota Myth |
"Mahpiyato" | Lakota | After the time of creation, the world was divided into three regions; the sky, the earth and waters and the underworld. When Mahpiyato created humans, they were placed in the subterranean region.. The Lakota, Plains Indians |
Spirit name "Manito/ Manitou/ Manitu" | Lapiti / Algonquin / Lakota / Ojibiwa & other tribes | The Great spirit |
"Wakan" | Lakota | Powerful or sacred in the language of the Lakota Sioux |
"Wakan Tanka" | Lakota | The term for the sacred or the Divine. 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 |
Spirit name "Zuzeca The Snake" | Lakota | An animistic spirit who is the father of lies patron of hidden things and a keeper of concealed knowledge. Lakota |