Wakan Tanka – Meaning, Symbol, prayer, definition
The meaning and definition of Wakan Tanka What is? Wakan Tanka in native american the Sioux name for the Great Spirit or Great Mystery. The origin come from lakota people … Read more
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The meaning and definition of Wakan Tanka What is? Wakan Tanka in native american the Sioux name for the Great Spirit or Great Mystery. The origin come from lakota people … Read more
Through Shamanistic communication according to some traditions the dead live in an underworld, which is not too happy, resembling this word, but darker. There is much hunger because descendants failed … Read more
Before it was forbidden the annual Sun Dance was held by many American Native tribes, practically all of the Plains Indian tribes. It was performed in the summer, usually in … Read more
Quanah Parker (ca. 1850-1911) was a young half-blood Comanche leader in the late 1870s or early 1880s in southwestern Oklahoma. Quanah means “fragrance.” Even though he considered himself to be … Read more
When starting the peyote religion that eventually became the Native American Church, Quanah Parker remembered well what the curandera taught him. He wore the beads like she had instructed, perhaps hers were rosary beads, … Read more
The legend of the sacredness of the peyote plant was revealed in a dream to a woman. She was lost from her group of hunting-men and root-gathering women. She had … Read more
The Inuit shaman, or angekkok, has great spiritual powers, which usually were developed when he reached the age of puberty. It was then after wondering in the desert for a few … Read more
In the Guaymi belief there is God, Navu, the younger of the devil. As God grew he hid from his older brother. But when growing so much he could no … Read more
The Ghost Dance gradually replaced the Sun Dance which was being banned by a joint effort of the federal government and missioners, at times both seemed the same, because of the … Read more
The woman missionary had been brought by the Indians to the witch doctor’s hut in the Andres Mountains of Peru. He and his friend knew she suffered a sever degree … Read more
The Meaning of Diablero Diablero, is a Soroan Indian term. It is an evil person who practices black sorcery and can change (metamorphosis) him/herself into an animal such as a … Read more
In some Inuit legends the Crow and Swallow are said to have given the world light. Prior to this there was no separation of day and night as time did not exist. … Read more
About the Corn Mother Since maze is a substantial food among the Native Americans it would certainly be included within their mythology. One legend concerns an old lady and an … Read more