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The database has encountered a problem.Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.Click the Back button to try another link.See waegwan, the Korean reading of the word.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.This page was last modified on 23 March 2008, at 19:13.In the Sioux tradition, Wakan Tanka (also known as Wakan or Wakanda by the Omaha Tribe) is the term for the "sacred" or the "divine".It is often translated as "The Great Spirit".However, its meaning is closer to "Great Mystery", and is typically understood as the power or the sacredness which resides in everything, similar to many animistic and pantheistic notions.This term describes every creature and object as wakan ("holy") or having aspects that are wakan.Modern usage
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Kanji used in spelling personal names and place names.Vocabulary for the first half of the text "Beginning Chinese" by DeFrancis(Note: Requires version 1.Some PinYin strings contain blanks, commas or semicolons, which display in the vocabulary grid as question marks in 1.Have
you read this first?It implies and teaches that creation has the power to give
life or to take it away.It
is one who communicates with the spirits.He can talk with everything on earth.Wakanpi are all things that are
above mankind.The beings that govern things are Wakanpi.The Wakanpi have power over everything on earth.Mankind should please them in all things.Mankind should ask them for what they wish.Mankind should think of the Wakanpi
as they think of their fathers and mothers.The Wakan has no birth and it has no death.They are Wakan and therefore will never die.Napa
(Finger)
Animals may be wakan.Things that
do not live may be wakan.When anything is food, it is wakan because it makes
life.When anything is medicine, it is wakan for it keeps life in the body.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.Little children are wakan because
they do not speak.Crazy people are wakan because the Wakanpi are in them.Anything
that is very old is wakan because no one knows when it was made.Anyone with great
power is wakan because the Wakanpi help them.The songs and the ceremonies of
the Oglalas are wakan because they belong to the Wakanpi.The spirit of every man
is wakan, and the ghost is wakan.Joseph
Epes Brown
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.So the shamans taught the people
ceremonies that would please Wakan Tanka and gain His favor.They taught ceremonies
regarding everything a man does.George
Sword
Wakan Tanka is above everything
and he governs everything.When Wakan Tanka wishes one of mankind to do something
in some manner he makes his wishes known either in a vision or through a shaman.This message well expresses a
spirit that is central to the Indian peoples.It implies that in every act, in
every thing, and in every instant, the Great Spirit is present, and that one should
be continually and intensely attentive to this Divine presence.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.In Lakota, this presence is called Taku Skanskan, or simply
Skan in the sacred language of the holy men.He is shapeless, but He has wings
with four joints each.His
voice is the thunderclap and rolling thunder is caused by the beating of His wings
on the clouds.He has an eye, and its glance is lightning.In the great cedar
tree beside His lodge He has His nest made of dry bones, and in it is an enormous
egg from which His young continually issue.This Thunderbird is really Wakan
Tanka as the giver of Revelation, symbolized by the lightning.The Four Directions
Is not the South the source of
life, and does not the flowering stick truly come from there?Then does
he not return to where he began, to his second childhood, there to give back his
life to all life, and his flesh to the earth
whence it came?And the black riders mounted their horses and stood four abreast
facing the place where the sun goes down.And the four white horsemen mounted and stood four abreast, facing the
place where the White Giant lives.Where the sun shines continually,
a Buffalo Nation will appear, behold!And
the red horsemen mounted and stood four abreast facing the East.Where you are always facing,
an Elk Nation will appear, behold!And the four yellow riders mounted their buckskins
and stood four abreast facing the South.The Red Road
From where the giant lives (the
North) to where you always face (the South) the Red Road goes, the road of good,
and on it shall your nation walk.Black
Elk
The Red Road is that which runs
north and south and is the good or straight way, for to the Sioux the north is
purity and the south is the source of life.The Circle
Everything the Power of the World
does is done in a circle.The sun comes forth and goes down again in
a circle.Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come
back again to where they were.The life of a man is a circle from childhood to
childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children.But the wasichus have put us
in these square boxes.Our power is not in us anymore.When we were living by the power of the circle in the
way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age.But now it takes
them very much longer to mature.We are prisoners of war while we are waiting
here.The Four Ages
The four steps represent, to
the Sioux, the four ages or phases of a cycle: the rock age, the bow age, the
fire age, and the pipe age.Menstruation
Each month when her period arrives
she bears an influence with which she must be careful, for the presence of a woman
in this condition may take away the power of a holy man.But since
for the traditional man everything in the macrocosm has its counterpart in the
microcosm, there may also be an end of the world for the individual here and now,
whenever he receives illumination or wisdom from Wakan Tanka, so that his ego
or ignorance dies, and he then lives continually in the Spirit.The Color Red
Red represents all that is sacred,
especially the earth, for we should remember
that it is from the earth that our bodies come, and it is to her that they return.The Sun provides everything for them.The Flesh
The flesh represents ignorance,
and thus, as we dance (the Sun Dance) and break the
thong loose, it is as if we are being freed from the bonds of the flesh.French, meaning "a hit or blow."
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