Lakota homelands · North America
Publicly shared female sacred figures of moonlight, harmony, right relationship, consequence and primordial depth from a living Indigenous tradition.
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deity · Lakota / Native American
Ptesáŋwiŋ, Bringer of the Sacred Pipe
Two hunters met a radiant woman on the plains. One approached her with disrespect and was undone; the other lowered his eyes and was taught. She came to the Lakota camp with the sacred pipe and the ceremonies that hold a people to one another, then walked away and turned into a white buffalo calf.
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deity · Lakota
The Moon, Companion of the Sun
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.
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goddess · Lakota Tradition
Double-Faced Woman of Consequence
Anog Ite, Double-Faced Woman, appears in Lakota sacred narrative as a complex figure marked by beauty, ambition, punishment and transformation.
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goddess · Lakota Tradition
Falling Star of Harmony
Wóȟpe is associated in public Lakota accounts with a falling star, beauty, peace and harmonious relationship. Some narratives connect her with White Buffalo Calf Woman, and these relationships should not be flattened into one universal version.
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deity · Lakota Tradition
Primordial Power of the Deep
Unk appears in some publicly available Lakota cosmological narratives as a female primordial being associated with conflict and deep water. Sacred teachings remain living community knowledge, not material for invention.
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