Maiden
What you need to sow
Begin again after an embarrassment. Take your own hours this time.
Lakota
Haŋwí
The Moon, Companion of the Sun
Northern Plains; living Lakota tradition
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Her story
Historical context
deity · Northern Plains; living Lakota tradition
Haŋwí is the moon, wife of Wí the sun. In Lakota narrative she is shamed at a feast when her place is taken, and afterwards she keeps to the night, so that sun and moon no longer share the sky at the same hour.
Mythology & traditions
Her withdrawal is not defeat but self-possession: she takes her own domain and rules it. She marks the months and lights the traveller who moves after dark.
Domains
- Moon
- Night travel
- Dignity after shame
- Time-keeping
- Companionship
Symbols
- Crescent moon
- Night sky
- Quilled star
- Buffalo robe
- Morning star
In the oracle
Her guidance
Mother
What you need to grow
Nurture your dignity. Do not stay where your place keeps getting taken.
Crone
What you need to know
Know that separating was the right call. You kept yourself.
Her tradition
Lakota Tradition
Publicly shared female sacred figures of moonlight, harmony, right relationship, consequence and primordial depth from a living Indigenous tradition.
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