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	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.
		The circle was indicative of life itself and was thus held to be sacred (wakan).
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/sioux.html (3612 words)

	Lakota Symbolism - Concepts
		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.
		This presence of Wakan Tanka, and one's consciousness of it, is that which the Christian saints have termed "living in the moment", the "eternal now", or what in the Islamic tradition is termed the Waqt.
	www.elexion.com /lakota/rites/concept2.html (1967 words)

	Summary of Native American Religions
		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)

	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?&act=ST&f=14&t=7106 (427 words)

	A Lakota Pantheon
		To be a Wicasa Wakan (a shaman or "medicine man") is to develop a great deal of wakan within oneself, and to utilize it conducting rituals, interpreting dreams, healing, and understanding hanbloglaka, the language of the spirit world.
		The spirit underlying Wakan Tanka itself is Inyan, who caused all things to be by sacrificing His own nature, and thereby infusing all things with His nature.
		Wakan Tanka can be addressed directly in prayer and ritual, but His influence within the world is diffused through His elements and aspects.
	web.raex.com /~obsidian/LakoPan.html (3132 words)

	Wakan Tanka
		In Native American mythology, Wakan Tanka (great mystery) is the supreme being and creator of the Lakota Sioux.
		These four gods were separate and powerful, but they were all part of Wakan Tanka.
		All of these beings were aspects of Wakan Tanka.
	www.mythencyclopedia.com /Tr-Wa/Wakan-Tanka.html (203 words)

	Miiamo - Celebrities
		Collana Wakan tanka in oro a 9 kt con Giada Russa e Ametista.
		orecchini Wakan tanka in argento e giada russa
		anello Wakan Tanka in argento brunito con pepita d'oro, in occasione dei tea che Mii Amo ha organizzato nel suo atelier per augurare buon Natale a tutti i suoi amici.
	www.miiamo.it /celebrities.html (977 words)

	Dustyn Medicine Wolf: Lakota Creation
		Singing, Wakan Tanka shaped the mud in his hands and spread it on the water, where it was just big enough for himself and the crow.
		Feeling sadness for the dry land, the Wakan Tanka cried tears that became oceans, streams, and lakes, He named the new land Turtle Island in honor of the turtle who provided the mud from which it was formed.
		Wakan Tanka then took many animals and birds from his great pipe bag and spread them across the earth.
	www.angelfire.com /co/MedicineWolf/stories/crea.html (460 words)

	Native American Religion
		Wakan is so faceted in nature it would be impossible to describe it all in words, but the following is an attempt to convey just a inkling of what it is all about.
		While the good wakan beings are fond of prayers that reach them on the smoke of sweetgrass, the evil wakan beings fear the smoke of sage.
		For example, the roots of certain plants are wakan because they are poisonous or some reptiles are considered wakanwakan because the stories handed down from generation to generation have said the wakan beings made them so.
	www.thewildwest.org /interface/index.php?action=264 (888 words)

	seven rites
		In the center is a round fireplace, the center of the universe, where Wakan Tanka rests.
		Wakan Tanka told him that his People had become lazy in their prayers, so he sent them a new way of praying-the Sun Dance.
		It was painted red, with a smaller blue circle in the center, which represented Wakan Tanka.
	home.earthlink.net /~shiseiryu1/shiseiryu1/nativeamerican/nat2.htm (2283 words)

	Wakan Tanka - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wakan Tanka, in Native American mythology, the supreme divinity of the Sioux (Lakota) people.
		The basic social unit of the Sioux was the tiyospe, an extended family group that travelled together in search of game.
		The primal creator spirit is known as wakan tanka or tirawa, from whom the major deities—Sun, Sky, Earth, and Rock—had their being.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Wakan_Tanka.html (98 words)

	Lakota Celestial Imagery
		Carved on an altar are the words Wakan, Wakan, Wakan, alluding to the Christian Trinitarian formula, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” The best approach to understand wakan is to understand the usage of the word and it is important to recognize the cultural context from which this concept takes its meaning.
		Something that is wakan does not reach the analytical mind, but rather catches the spirit of a person and causes him or her to reflect.
		In the nineteenth-century Lakota system of belief, the unity of Wakan Tanka embraced all time and space, together with the entirety of being, in a universe where the place of human beings was minor but well-defined.
	faculty.normandale.edu /~physics/Hollabaugh/Lakota/CWSConference.htm (6147 words)

	Wakan Tanka (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wakan Tanka is thought of the creator of the world or universe; believed to be the All-Providing One.
		This reverence is displayed when the people honor the four directions, the Sun, Mother Earth, and their fellow man because these are Wakan Tanka's creation; when honoring them, people honor the spirit of Wakan Tanka which resides within each of them.
		Since it is traditional for the American Indian people not to argue over religious concepts, considering such arguments foolish, they invite everyone, especially the rainbow people, to join them, each in their own way and expression, in the reverence of Wakan Tanka.
	www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/~articles/w/wakan_tanka.html (157 words)

	Lakota Celestial Imagery
		Carved on an altar are the words Wakan, Wakan, Wakan, alluding to the Christian Trinitarian formula, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” The best approach to understand wakan is to understand the usage of the word and it is important to recognize the cultural context from which this concept takes its meaning.
		Something that is wakan does not reach the analytical mind, but rather catches the spirit of a person and causes him or her to reflect.
		In the nineteenth-century Lakota system of belief, the unity of Wakan Tanka embraced all time and space, together with the entirety of being, in a universe where the place of human beings was minor but well-defined.
	www.nr.cc.mn.us /Physics/Hollabaugh/Lakota/CWSConference.htm (6147 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)

	Ptesan
		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/ptesan.htm (1539 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)

	Lakota LifeCycles
		The fact that the stages of human life replicate the structure of universal processes is wakan, it is something that is sacred and is to be revered.
		This understanding is reflected in Lakota prayers by referring to Wakan Tanka as both grandfather and father, and to the earth, Maka, as both mother and grandmother (Joseph Epes Brown 1953: 8).
		It is precisely between the states of ritual death and rebirth that a person comes closest to Wakan Tanka as this is the proper ritual framework for seeking and receiving visions, the foundation of Lakota spiritual knowledge.
	id-archserve.ucsb.edu /natlink/old_natlink/NATraditions/Lakota/HTML/LifeCycle.html (2681 words)

	When the Moon Cries
		In the beginning when the Wakan Tanka was forming, it's members were alsoyoung and made mistakes, as well.
		Ksa, who was the counselor to the Wakan Tanka, was the offspring of inyan and wakinyan.
		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.wolflodge.org /wolflodge/voices/cryingmoon.htm (1648 words)

	Native American Religion
		Nothing should be discounted as the Wakan Tanka can, and does, speak through all things.
		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.
	www.thewildwest.org /native_american/religion/Quest.html (691 words)

	Wakan Tanka - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wakan Tanka (“Great Mystery”) is a remote creator...
		Sioux religious beliefs centered on Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit or Great Mystery, an all-pervasive force.
		This presence of Wakan Tanka, and one's consciousness of it, is that which the Christian saints have termed "living in the moment", the "eternal now", or what in the Islamic tradition is termed the...
	encarta.msn.com /Wakan_Tanka.html (176 words)

	Lakota Star Knowledge Book
		And so because Wakan Tanka made everything they believe these things are wakan And so what Wakan Tanka made, we speak to in ceremony.
		e say that Wakan Tanka created the Heart of Everything That Is to show us that we have a special relationship with our first and real mother, the earth, and that there are responsibilities tied to that relationship.
		Wakan Tanka placed the stars in such a manner so what is in the heavens is on earth, what is on earth is in the heavensw in the same way.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/stars/starknow.html (1038 words)

	The Sacred Pipe
		The strange woman was now very close to the men, and after putting down her bundle, she asked the one with the bad thoughts to come over to her, saying "Do as you wish." As the young man approached the mysterious woman, they were both covered by a great cloud.
		This round rock, which is made of the same stone as the bowl of the pipe, your Father Wakan Tanka has given to you.
		Wakan Tanka has given unto you this sacred pipe, and through it you may have knowledge.
	www.ouachitalk.com /sacred.htm (1850 words)

	Oglala Sun Dance: Translations of Texts: Wakan
		Wicasa wakan is the term for a Lakota priest of the old religion.
		All of the Wakan both the good and evil, are pleased with the smoke of the pipe.
		The Wicasa Wakan or priests, speak for all the Wakan beings.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nam/pla/sdo/sdo49.htm (753 words)

	Wakan Tanka
		Wakan Tanka, The Great Spirit, The Grand Mystery, The Creator are part and parcel of the Universe.
		The wolf was quite a wild animal that Wakan Tanka thought would end up extinct due to its foolhardiness.
		Wakan Tanka, seeing the act of friendliness knew that the wolf was changing his ways.
	members.aol.com /akashaspirit/wakan.html (554 words)

	Biologie - Wakan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wakan ist ein Wort aus der Sprache der Sioux-Indianer und bedeutet heilig.
		Wakan Tanka nannten die Sioux den allumfassenden Gott, dem Geistwesen unterstanden.
		Ausgewählte PRODUKTE zum Thema Wakan finden Sie HIER.
	www.biologie.de /biowiki/Wakan (398 words)

	A Thomas Merton Influenced Movement
		When I discovered this profanation of the sacred Sioux name Wakan, I was participating in a world-view behind the word wakan movement.
		Hence, a lot of people believe that the word wakan and the name Wakan-Tonka are used by all Native Americans.
		And the word wakan is used by a lot of Native American tribes, bands, and villages throughout America.
	www.thomasmertoncenter.org /The_New_People/March2004/influenced.htm (981 words)

	WAKAN TANKA, THE SUPREME DEITY OF THE DAKOTA - Gods, Goddesses and Supernatural Beings - Polynesia, Columbia, Labrador, ...
		WAKAN TANKA, THE SUPREME DEITY OF THE DAKOTA - Gods, Goddesses and Supernatural Beings - Polynesia, Columbia, Labrador, New Guinea - Mircea Eliade, "From Primitives to Zen"
		Mircea Eliade "From Primitives to Zen": WAKAN TANKA, THE SUPREME DEITY OF THE DAKOTA
		Wakan Tanka is like sixteen different persons but each person is kan.
	alexm.here.ru /mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/008.html (435 words)

	Indianz.Com Message Board - Attacks on Navajo Professor
		I learned that every human being, creature, and object on the Earth was given the same "life force" by Wakan Tanka.
		Some people refer to this life force as "spirit" and in that sense all of Wakan Tanka's creations are related.
		I was also taught that the Winkte was someone who showed evidence of both sexes...ie, a true hermaphrodite , and because of these differences were regarded as Wakan or "sacred"; and that Winkte's had roles in certain ceremonies.
	www.indianz.com /board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18488&whichpage=2 (2533 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)

	Sioux Nations Spirituality--Beliefnet.com
		Well, I would not call Wakan Tanka a god as much as a sacredness of everything, like the collective sacredness of the universe.
		I do know a few people who follow the Lakota ways who also call Wakan Tanka "Creator" but I beleive this is a more recent practice which came with the introduction of Christian ideas into the Lakota belief system; Especially in the light of the old Lakota creation myth not even mensioning Wakan Tanka.
		Again the spirits would share the mystery of sacredness with Wakan Tanka, but would not be meerly facettes of one god.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?pageID=2&discussionID=459401&messages_per_page=4 (590 words)

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