Wakan Tanka
Wakan Tanka is the Lakota name for The Fabric of Consciousness
Syncretic Terms
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Notes
Wakan Tanka is typically corrupted to mean The Great Spirit. However, Eastman notes that wakan means mystery and tanka means "great, mighty or supreme."[1]
The highly ethnocentric and frankly offensive Dr. Charles Eastman notes that the Sioux did not believe they were worthy of directly approaching (i.e. connecting) with Wankan Tanka.[2] This may explain the Native American emphasis on Shamanic Drumming to induce a Trance Connection, rather than a more direct and unmitigated connection to The Fabric
Footnotes
- ↑ Eastman, Dr. Charles A. "Sioux Mythology." The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition. Eds. Basett, Hellen Wheeler and Frederick Starr. Vol. I: Charles H. Sergel Company, 1898. 222.
- ↑ Eastman, Dr. Charles A. "Sioux Mythology." The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition. Eds. Basett, Hellen Wheeler and Frederick Starr. Vol. I: Charles H. Sergel Company, 1898. 225-6.
