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	Wakan - Spiritually-based Shamanic Studies Community: drumming retreats pilgrimage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		WAKAN is a spiritually based, non-profit organization & shamanic studies community dedicated to the sacredness of life.
		Wakan also publishes the quarterly journal "Sacred Reflections," makes small grants through its foundation to people and programs addressing social justice issues, contributes to a number of causes in support of Native American and Indigenous Peoples, and works with the Attitudinal Healing Connection in Oakland to promote the healing of racism.
		Wakan offers programs, retreats and services to help people remember what is sacred to their highest awareness, and to incorporate this into all aspects of daily life.
	www.nierica.com /wakan/wakantoc.html (229 words)

	Wakan Tanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Lakota traditions, Wakan Tanka is the spirit of Inyan (Rock), first of the superior Gods.
		Every creature and object has a wakan, such as wakan tanka kin, the wakan of the sun.
		This article relating to a myth or legend from the Americas is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wakan_Tanka (103 words)

	Sioux Religion
		This incomprehensibility and unpredictability of the universe, anything difficult to understand, is called 'wakan', which also connotes the animating force of the universe, the totality of which is 'Wakan Tanka'.
		Wakan Tanka is the sum total of the personified powers that brought all things into being; sometimes it is embodied as the Six Grandfathers.
		DeMallie has referred to the concept of 'wakan' as the dominant "intangible symbol" of Sioux religion, the core of its belief, and the reader should turn to the section on Belief for a discussion of this important concept.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/sioux.html (3612 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Wakan Tanka
		Wakan Tanka, in Native American mythology, the supreme divinity of the Sioux (Lakota) people.
		Wakan Tanka (“Great Mystery”) is a remote creator who...
		The primal creator spirit is known as wakan tanka or tirawa, from whom the major deities—Sun, Sky, Earth, and Rock—had their being.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Wakan_Tanka.html (91 words)

	Lakota Rites . Inipi
		All these things are wakan to us and must be understood deeply if we really wish to purify ourselves, for the power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
		A round hole is made at the center of the sweat lodge, and with the dirt which is taken out a sacred path is made leading out of the lodge to the east, and at the end of this path a small mound is built.
		For it is the wish of Wakan Tanka that the Light enters into the darkness, that we may see not only with our two eyes, but with the one eye which is of the heart, Chante Ishta, and with which we see and know all that is true and good.
	www.elexion.com /lakota/rites/inipi2.html (2637 words)

	Wakan Foundation for the Arts: serving humanity and the world through the arts
		Wakan Foundation President and Producer Khashyar Darvich (left) with His Holiness the Dalai Lama during filming for a Wakan Foundation documentary about peace.
		The Wakan Foundation for the Arts provides and creates programs that fill a basic human need and craving: to know that life and people are good, and that there is hope concerning the conflicts, struggles, and problems that most of us face.
		The Wakan Foundation for the Arts often has internship and employment opportunities with its documentary film and other projects, and we are always looking for people who genuinely feel inspired to make a positive difference in the world through film and the arts.
	www.wakan.com (669 words)

	Lakota Symbolism - Concepts
		When anything is hard to understand, it is wakan because mankind does not know what it is. Anything that is used in the ceremony and songs to the Wakanpi is wakan, because it should not be used for anything else.
		Wakan Tanka as Father is the Great Spirit considered in relation to His manifestation, either as Creator, Preserver, or Destroyer, identical to the Christian God, or to the Hindu Brahma-Saguna.
		In the old times the Lakotas believed that Wakan Tanka was everywhere all the time and observed everything that each one of mankind did and even knew what anyone thought, that he might be pleased or displeased because of something that one did.
	www.elexion.com /lakota/rites/concept2.html (1967 words)

	Turning Point - River Name Change Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When the white men performed the punning translation, they did so by mistranslating Wakan in the Sioux's compound name, turning a word that means sacred (or spirit) to mean an alcohol spirit, the alcohol spirit rum.
		Because the name Wakan is derived from the sacred Sioux name for the Great Spirit, Wakan-Tonka, the Rum River's current name indirectly desecrates the Sioux name for the Great Spirit.
		Twenty-five years ago I became aware of the profanation of the Sioux name for the Rum River while researching the world-view behind the word wakan, which since the late 1960s has been embraced by the counterculture as a part of a movement toward global unity and environmental sustainability.
	www.turning-point.ca /index.php/article/articleview/522/1/51 (2055 words)

	The White Buffalo Prophecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the center of the tipi they were to put up an owanka wakan, a sacred altar, made of red earth, with a buffalo skull and a three-stick rack for a holy thing she was bringing.
		Wakan Tanka smiles upon us, because now we are as one: earth, sky, all living things, the two-legged, the four-legged, the winged ones, the trees, the grasses.
		The buffalo was put in the west by Wakan Tanka at the making of the world, to hold back the waters.
	www.whitebuffalopress.com /wbuffalo1.htm (1867 words)

	Official God for 1-27-05 Wakan-Tanka - :: LEAST I COULD DO FORUM::
		Wakan Tanka Kin signifies the chief or leading Wakan being is Nagi Tanka, the Great Spirit who is also Taku Skanskan.
		If their prayer is directed to all the good Wakan beings, they should pray to Wakan Tanka; but if a prayer if offered to only one of these beings, then the one addressed should be named.
		Wakan Tanka is like sixteen different persons but each person is kan. Therefore, they are only the same as one.
	www.leasticoulddo.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=7106 (344 words)

	Magia D' La Luna
		Wakan Tanka is the supreme divinity of the Lakota (Sioux) Native American people in North America.
		Wakan Tanka ("Great Mystery") is the creator who governs the universe through various deities, which are all aspects of his being.
		These aspects are addressed in prayer as "father," while transcendent Wakan Tanka is called "grandfather." Wakan Tanka presides over important rituals involving the sacred pipe of the Lakota.
	www.magialuna.net /godw.html (1279 words)

	Lakota Ceremony
		She directed him to return to the camp and call all the council together and tell then that [she would soon be coming to them and that they should prepare a feast], but that the men must all sit with their head bowed and look at the ground until she was in their midst.
		Wakan Tanka is pleased by Inipi, for it strengthens the life and purifies the body (in Walker 1991: 78-79).
		Rites involving the construction of the camp itself pertain to everything from the preparations for the placement of the sacred pole (a ritually chosen cottonwood tree) and the construction of the dance lodge or arbor around it, to the placement and erecting of tipis.
	id-archserve.ucsb.edu /natlink/old_natlink/NATraditions/Lakota/HTML/Ceremony.html (7164 words)

	Peace Seed - One God
		Wakan Tanka Kin signifies the chief or leading wakan being, which is the Sun.
		Mankind is permitted to pray to the wakan beings.
		If their prayer is directed to all the good wakan beings, they should pray to Wakan Tanka; but if the prayer is offered to only one of these beings then the one addressed should be named....
	peaceseeds.elysiumgates.com /one.html (509 words)

	Native Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And generally some physical representation of the vision or message (feather, fur, rock) is collected and placed in the seeker's medicine bag to ensure the power of the vision would stay with the individual to remind, protect or guide him.
		When finished, the holy man prays and gives thanks to Wakan Tanka for all things given and for having pity on the person seeking the vision.
		Vision quests are not generally discussed openly, but sometimes the details come out long after, only to amaze and astound the listener of the tale.
	www.thewildwest.org /native_american/religion/Quest.html (691 words)

	Cannupa - The Sacred Pipe
		It sought to perceive the mysterious, the sacred or "Wakan" in those things that were in nature around him and based upon this perception Lakota Society developed a religious philosophy which would guide his life on this earth.
		There is the wind which is very "Wakan", mysterious, sacred because even though you cannot see the wind, it seems to go right through you, it nevertheless has the power to destroy many and big things.
		This is very mysterious because it begins extremely small, almost invisible to the naked eye, and yet when it begins it doesn't end until a human being is born and begins to grow further to maturity.
	www.bluecloud.org /2.html (1030 words)

	The Sioux Spiritual Center: The Canku Wakan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since the Canku Wakan weekend is Lakota in origin, any man or women of Native American heritage and in good standing with the Catholic Church can participate.
		The Canku Wakan is fast becoming a major vehicle by which the two traditions become one in service to God.
		The Canku Wakan weekend is designed to allow people the freedom to benefit from the best of both traditions of worship and to profit spiritually, emotionally and physically.
	puffin.creighton.edu /jesuit/ssc/canku.html (386 words)

	Bronzes by Korczak: "Taku Wakan" by J. Borglum and M. Ziolkowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to Lakota beliefs, to invoke Taku Wakan is to invoke all the spirits.
		The sculpture Taku Wakan represents all that is mysterious in the sacred dimensions of Native American life.
		Some of the symbols in the sculpture relate closely to a specific people or their culture and others are universal, but all blend together to reflect the harmony and unity central to the Native American way of life.
	www.bronzesbykorczak.com /taku.html (199 words)

	Summary of Native American Religions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The "animating force" that acted as the common denominator of the universe was known as "Wakan Tanka." (1987).
		According to DeMallie, Wakan Tanka was explained in relation to the Dakota by "wicasa wakan", or holy men.
		The Dakota were encouraged to contribute to the understanding of Wakan Tanka through their own individual relationship with the spirit world.
	are.as.wvu.edu /ruvolo.htm (3148 words)

	Wakan Films: Producer of Extraordinary Motion Pictures
		Wakan Films' national documentary that was aired on PBS stations and several times on The History Channel and that won 7 awards, including a 1997 Telly Award and 2 gold Classic Telly Awards which honors the best work in the past 20 years.
		Wakan Films' and the Hunter Neil Company's television documentary, "Black Hawk Waltz: Tales of a Rocky Mountain Town," was aired nationally several times on the History Channel in 1998, 1999, and 2000.
		Wakan Films has started a nonprofit foundation, the "Wakan Foundation for the Arts", to help support films and other arts that serve the Greatest Good and that uplift humanity.
	www.wakan.com /wakan_films.htm (819 words)

	Gabriola Sounder News
		The outcome of the internet hit continues to reverberate around the island, particularly in the arts community, where an $8,000 purchase by an international collector is big and welcome news, indeed.
		Elias Wakan's latest creation Ruff Substitute is named for the elaborate collars worn by women in the 17th Century.
		Wakan used part of the money from his biggest-ever sale to stage a celebratory party for patrons and friends who have been so supportive over the years.
	www.soundernews.com /fullstory/EpZZlFlEyFVUDolOJd.shtml (1039 words)

	Wakan to Hadash Walk
		Alternatively it is possible to walk from Hadash to Wakan, but this is across big boulder fans and not easy after a long day of climbing and descending.
		It climbs from 1480 m at Wakan to 2300 m over a distance of 4 km, subsequently some 2km at 2300 m following the edge of the Saiq Plateau and a descend down to 1480 m at Hadash over a distance of 3.5 km.
		The climb from the village of Wakan is marvelous and for the first part of the ascend follows a streaming falaj through the terraced gardens above the village.
	home.hetnet.nl /~lilian_jan_schreurs/oman/WakHad.htm (902 words)

	Lakota Astronomy
		However, the Sun Dance is not for the purposes of offering blood or anything else to the sun; and even though many people have focused on the use of hooks being driven into the flesh of the dancers or their way of dancing until exhaustion, this was not an 'ordeal' in the commonly understood sense.
		A heyoka, or sacred-backwards-clown, was wakan because he did things in an ironic, reversed way that was different from everyone else.
		The pole star was wakan because all the other stars whirled around it while it kept its place in the sky.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/lakota.htm (4632 words)

	wakan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wakan comes from the wakan people, who believe in a wakan spirit.
		The spirit of the tree or anything related is also known as the wakan.
		These wakan beings are better than mankind just like mankind is greater than animals.
	www.npatterson.net /sara/wakan.html (60 words)

	Transconscious - Discussion Forums - Spiritual Warrior's - THE FEAST BY TATE. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hanwi, his wife, was the second chosen because she was Wakan Tanks.
		These four were chosen because they were Wakan Tanka.
		These four, with Tate, were the chiefs of Taku Wakan and formed the council.
	transconscious.com /xoops/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1361&forum=43 (1276 words)

	NewPage
		When the white men preformed the "punning translation" they did so by mis-translating the name Wakan in the Sioux's sacred compound name Mdo-te-Mi-ni-Wakan, a name that means sacred (or spirit) to mean an alcohol spirit, the alcohol spirit rum.
		And because the sacred name Wakan is derived from the sacred Sioux name for their Great Spirit (Wakan-Tonka), the Rum River's current name also desecrates the Sioux name for their Great Spirit.
		When I discovered this profanation of the Sioux name Wakan, I was participating in a youth of the 1960s countercultural movement with a world-view behind the word wakan.
	towahkon.org /Worldview.html (2270 words)

	Naomi Wakan adult-level titles
		Latest poems by Naomi Beth Wakan inspired by her life on the small island of Gabriola.
		This wise and witty book of quotations about art, art collectors, painters, scuptors and critics is a must read for anyone associated with the creative process.
		This profound and witty collection of quotes stretches from birth to death with such topics as ambition, middle age and legacy floating around and between.
	www.naomiwakan.com /nw_adult_titles.html (820 words)

	Wakan 1640 - New French V-Twin Motorcycle - The Kneeslider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wakan Motorcycles has produced the Wakan 1640, a single seat, V-Twin powered sport bike built around the AC Cobra idea of dropping a big American powerplant into a sporty European frame.
		On the topic of the Wakan, 115 ft-lbs of torque is not a trifle.
		The Wakan is a beautiful design and I would love to have one for myself as long as it wasn’t too loud.
	thekneeslider.com /archives/2006/07/18/wakan-1640-new-french-v-twin-motorcycle (10794 words)

	Wakan
		Wakan or Wakan Tanka is the name the Lakota Indians (Eastern Sioux) use to indicate their gods in general.
		Wakan tanka kin, the wakan of the sun, is the most important.
		Article "Wakan" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 22 September 2002 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/w/wakan.html (59 words)

	Spiritwheel, A Lakota Creation Story
		Ksa, who was the counselor to the Wakan Tanka, was the offspring of inyan and wakinyan.
		Because tete is a member of the Wakan Tanka, tete and Ite's sons would also one day become part of the Wakan Tanka.
		Before the next feast for the Wakan Tanka was to be held under the ground, Ksa lied to hanhepi wi by saying to her that the Wi wanted her to come a little bit late and to not fix herself up because it was not an important social occasion.
	www.spiritwheel.com /lakotacreation.htm (1308 words)

	Miracle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The people were, of course, all very excited as they waited in the great lodge for the coming of the holy woman, and everybody was wondering where this mysterious woman came from and what it was that she wished to say.
		Soon the young men who were watching for the coming of the wakan person announce that they saw something in the distance approaching them in a beautiful manner, and then suddenly she entered the lodge, walked around sun-wise, and stood in front of Standing Hollow Horn.
		The wakan woman then touched the foot of the pipe to the round stone which lay upon the ground, and said: With this pipe you will be bound to all your relatives: your Grandfather and Father, your Grandmother and Mother.
	www.peggyflanders.com /NativeAmerican/miracle.htm (1538 words)

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