Wakan Tanka
In
" and occasionally as "Great Mystery".Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka can be interpreted as the power or the sacredness that resides in everything, resembling some animistic and pantheistic beliefs. This term describes every creature and object as wakȟáŋ ("holy") or having aspects that are wakȟáŋ.[3][4] The element Tanka or Tȟáŋka corresponds to "Great" or "large".[5]
Before contact with European Christian missionaries, the Lakota used Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka to refer to an
monotheistic.[3]
Cognate terms in other languages
Siouan: Wakan Tanka or Wakan is also known as Wakanda in the Omaha-Ponca, Ioway-Otoe-Missouri, Kansa and Osage languages; and Wakatakeh in Quapaw.[citation needed]
See also
References
- Natalie Curtis Burlin. p38-40
- ^ Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 4. Smithsonian Institution, 1852. p302
- ^ ISBN 0-8263-1868-1.
- ^ The Holy Bible, in the language of the Dakotas: translated out of the original tongues. 1883.
- ^ "Great". New Lakota Dictionary Online. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ Helen Wheeler Bassett, Frederick Starr. The International Folk-lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893. Charles H. Sergel Company, 1898. p221-226