A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544Dorsey, James Owen
Religion
A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544
Dorsey, James Owen
Siouan Indians -- Religion
Buffalo-bull Ghost.
Stone Buffalo-bull.
Buffalo-bull Buffalo-cow (the only name in which both sexes are
given).
Iron Buffalo-bull. (See § 107.)
Buffalo-bull Wind.
Buffalo-cow Eagle.
Iron Buffalo. (N. B.--It is uncertain to which element the buffalo
should be assigned. He seems to be associated with all of them.)
Sun-dog (F? + E?).
Eagle Thunder-Being (A? + F).
Elk Eagle. (4th Eth., Pl. LXX, No. 178; an elk’s horns and eagle’s
tail.)
Sun Eagle (F + A).
Star Eagle (F? + A).
Stone Eagle (E? + A).
Iron Eagle.
Crow Eagle.
Owl Eagle.
Weasel Eagle.
Grizzly-bear Hawk.
Fire Hawk.
Scarlet Hawk Whirlwind.
Hawk Ghost.
Iron Hawk. (4th Eth., Pl. LVI, No. 47; the hawk is blue.)
Iron Wolf.
Wolf Ghost.
Fire Wind (F + A).
Fire Lightning.
Iron Lightning.
Iron Star.
Iron Boy. (4th Eth., Pl. LVIII, No. 81; a boy painted blue.)
Iron Crow. (4th Eth., Pl. LVI, No. 47; a crow painted blue.)
Crow Ghost.
Iron Elk.
Female-elk Boy. (4th Eth., Pl. LVII, No. 66; the head and
shoulders of a boy joined to a female elk.)
Iron Dog.
Dog Ghost.
Bowlder Thunder-Being (E + F).
Iron Whirlwind.
Iron Beaver.
Small-bird Beaver.
Iron Owl.
Cloud Hail.
Iron Cloud.
Fire Cloud.
Iron Wind.
Stone Ghost.
Cloud Black-bear.
Hermaphrodite Ghost(!)
Iron Kingfisher.
Cloud Horse.
Iron Horse.
Lightning Horse.
Earth (or Ground) Horse.
Wind Horse.
Fire Horse.
Black-bird Horse.
Small-bird Man (or, Indian; 4th Eth., Pl. LIV, No. 28; bird’s head
and wings on a man’s body).
Dog Rattlesnake.
There are several “Waśićun” names: Cloud Waśićun, Fire
Waśićun, Night Waśićun, and Iron Waśićun. The last
one has for its pictograph a man with a hat, i. e., a white man, and
can hardly have any mystic significance. The name, Waśićun,
originally meant “guardian spirit,” but it is now applied to white
people (§ 122). In the absence of the pictographs, we can not
tell whether Cloud Waśićun, Fire Waśićun, and Night
Waśićun refer to guardian spirits (in which case they are mystic
names connected with cults) or to white men.
Most of the above names are taken from the Dakota census lists. The
┴ɔiwere lists furnish only two composite names of this character: Iron
Hawk Female, and Pigeon Thunder-being. The Kansa list has Moon Hawk
and Moon Hawk Female, the latter name, which is found in the Omaha
and Ponka list, suggesting the Egyptian figure of a woman’s body with
a hawk’s head, surmounted by a crescent moon. Horse Eagle appears to
be a sort of Pegasus. Buffalo-bull Eagle may refer to the myth of the
Orphan and the Buffalo-woman, in which we learn that the Buffalo people
ascended through the air to the upper world.[319]
PERSONAL NAMES FROM HORNED BEINGS.
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