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THE GREAT SPIRIT
THE GREAT SPRIRIT - The sky, sun, moon and earth were all called Wankan Tanka, the Great Spirit with no end. They were also considered individual gods. Thunder and wind were also gods. Sacred powers always worked in circles. The cycle of the sun and moon was a circle, the eagleís flight and the winds movement. Wankan Tankas symbol was a circle. It stood for the Earth, the Teepee and the Sacred Hoops. The tribes would flourish as long as the circle was unbroken. The plains Indians didn’t need a priest to see the gods face to face. They would communicate with the Great Spirit through dreams and visions. They would do so privately, inventing their own ways to communicate. The only thing a man needed to have visions was his medicine bundle and his pipe. He would only open his bundle in private, for the things in it, pebbles, oddly shaped roots and animal bones and claws, were very sacred and had lives of their own. Not all religious ceremonies were private though. One of the best examples of this was the Sundance.
THE GREAT SPIRIT
THE GREAT SPRIRIT - The sky, sun, moon and earth were all called Wankan Tanka, the Great Spirit with no end. They were also considered individual gods. Thunder and wind were also gods. Sacred powers always worked in circles. The cycle of the sun and moon was a circle, the eagleís flight and the winds movement. Wankan Tankas symbol was a circle. It stood for the Earth, the Teepee and the Sacred Hoops. The tribes would flourish as long as the circle was unbroken. The plains Indians didn’t need a priest to see the gods face to face. They would communicate with the Great Spirit through dreams and visions. They would do so privately, inventing their own ways to communicate. The only thing a man needed to have visions was his medicine bundle and his pipe. He would only open his bundle in private, for the things in it, pebbles, oddly shaped roots and animal bones and claws, were very sacred and had lives of their own. Not all religious ceremonies were private though. One of the best examples of this was the Sundance.
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