Lokota Flashcards
(8 cards)
Supreme Reality
Wakan Tanka; Great Spirit; great mystery “Means most sacred”
Wankan Tanka
Refers to 16 different deities
4 is the most sacred number; 4 directions
Inktomi
Spider also Trickster figure
mediator between human and supes
taught humans their ways and customs
stores tell us to not behave like him
afterlife
milky way
4 souls depart
1 soul goes on the spirit path; it meets an old women who judges it and either allow it to continue to the world of ancestors or sends it back to earth as ghosts
the other souls enter unborn children and r reborn in new bodies
Vision Quest
A way for individuals to gain access to spiritual power. ensures great success in hunting ill war
Ritual purification: Sweat Lodge comes first; STRUCTURE IS INTENDED TO REPRESENT THE UNIVERSE.
Once done he goes off alone to a place far from camp usually a hill. Their he endures elements for days no food or water. Can perform certain rituals
a vision will come arriving in the form of an animal or object or force of nature.
Medicine man interprets and it affects the questy. sometimes the questy can get a guardian or smthing
Medicine man
A spiritual leader who issues specific instructions and interprets the vision quest
Sun dance
Beginning of summer and celebrates the new year; preps for buffalo
Medicine man leads and chooses an outstanding women with good moral character.
A cottonwood tree is chosen and lodged. The tree is the axis mundi; center of the universe
Constructed of 28 poles 28 luna days; 4 compass. 4 directions
Long periods of dancing while facing the sun, life giving powers
SOME DANCERS SKEWER THE FLESH OF THEIR CHEST AND ATTACH THEMSELVES TO THE TREES WITH LEATHER THONGS. THEN TEAR THEIR FLESH. BODY MUTILAITON
BC BODY IS THE ONLY THING THEY TRUELY OWN
