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Okaga - Fertility spirit of the south winds. Wiyohipeyata - The wind Spirit of the west who oversees endings and nighttime occurrences. Wiyohiyanpa, or Yanpa - The wind Spirit of the east who oversees beginnings and daytime occurrences. [1] Yata - The north wind. [1] Yum - A whirlwind Spirit, child of Anog Ite. He is the Spirit of love. [1]
The niyá is the life or breath; the nağí is the spirit or soul; the šicų is the guardian spirit. [84] These are the wakʽą aspects of a person and are therefore immortal. [ 84 ] Also important to a person's identity is the wacʽį (mind, will, consciousness), the cʽąté (feelings, emotions), and the wówaš'ake (strength, power).
Shaking tents could be a lodge or a teepee used to summon spirits. Shaking tent ceremony is a ritual of some Indigenous people in North America that is used to connect the people with the spirit realm and establish a connection and line of communication between the spirit world and the mortal world.
On the solstice and equinox the lodge performs a set of ceremonies that begin at dusk and end at dawn. Each of the ceremonies differ, with the winter ceremony being the highest ceremony of the lodge. All of the lodge ceremonies begin with a purification done through a Madoodiswan (sweat lodge). After the sweat the ceremony begins at dusk and ...
[7] In one Shawnee tale, "Sawage" (šaawaki) is the deity of the south wind. [8] Jeremiah Curtin translates Sawage as 'it thaws', referring to the warm weather of the south. In an account and a song collected by C. F. Voegelin, šaawaki is attested as the spirit of the South, or the South Wind. [9] [10]
Today, the hawk's spiritual lessons continue to hold relevance. As Dubois puts it, "The hawk is a blessing and reminder of the guidance always available if we pay attention."
They have also been called the "People of the South wind", [2] "People of water", Kansa, Kaza, Konza, Conza, Quans, Kosa, and Kasa. Their tribal language is Kansa, classified as a Siouan language. [3] The state of Kansas was named for this tribe.
Ledger artwork by Lakota artist Black Hawk representing a dream of a thunder being. c. 1880. The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota people) of the Great Plains of North America.