The sun a wakanta 423 The winds as wakantas 423 The thunder-being a wakanta 424 Subterranean powers 424 Subaquatic powers 424 Animals as wakantas 425 Apotheoses 425 Dwellings of gods 425 Worship 425 Taboos 426 Public or tribal fetiches 427 Symbolic earth formations of the Winnebago 427 Personal fetiches 428 Dancing societies 428 The Otter dancing society 429 The Red Medicine dancing society 429 The Green Corn dance 429 The Buffalo dancing society 429 ┴ɔiwere traditions 430 Belief in a future life 430 CHAPTER V.--Dakota and Assiniboin cults 431 Alleged Dakota belief in a Great Spirit 431 Riggs on the Taku wakan 432 Meaning of wakan 433 Daimonism 433 Animism 433 Principal Dakota gods 434 Miss Fletcher on Indian religion 434 Prayer 435 Sacrifice 435 Use of paint in worship 438 The unkteḣi, or subaquatic and subterranean powers 438 Character of the unkteḣi 438 Power of the unkteḣi 439 Subordinates of the unkteḣi 439 The mystery dance 440 The miniwatu 440 The Wakiⁿyaⁿ, or thunder-beings 441 The armor gods 443 The war prophet 444 The spirits of the mystery sacks 445