Wakan may refer to: Wakan, Oman, a village in Oman Wakan, meaning "powerful" or "sacred" in the Lakota language Wakan, the original Dakota name for the...
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In Lakota spirituality, Wakan Tanka (Standard Lakota Orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka) is the term for the sacred or the divine. This is usually translated...
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Elias Wakan (born April 20, 1945) is a constructivist sculptor working since 1996 on Gabriola Island, in British Columbia, Canada. His sculptures are...
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Great Spirit (section Wakan Tanka)
Great Spirit is known as Wakan Tanka. According to Lakota activist Russell Means, a more semantically accurate translation of Wakan Tanka is the Great Mystery...
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Wakan, Wukan or Wekan (Arabic: وكان, romanized: wkān) is a village in the wilayah of Nakhal in Oman. It lies on the slopes of the Wadi Mistal mountains...
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Wakan konkōbun (和漢混淆文) is a Japanese writing style which uses a mix of Japanese and Chinese writing styles that intermingles Japanese and Chinese character...
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The Wakan Sansai Zue (和漢三才図会, lit. "Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia") is an illustrated Japanese leishu encyclopedia published in 1712 in the Edo...
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Spirit Lake Tribe (redirect from Mni wakan oyate)
Spirit Lake Tribe (in Santee Dakota: Mniwakaƞ Oyate, also spelt as Mni Wakan Oyate, formerly known as Devils Lake Sioux Tribe) is a federally recognized...
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The Wakan Rōeishū (和漢朗詠集, Collection of Japanese and Chinese Poems for Singing) is an anthology of Chinese poems (Jp. kanshi 漢詩) and 31-syllable Japanese...
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Harriet Island (redirect from Wakan Island)
Harriet Island, initially known as Wakan Island, is a former island and urban park located near downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was...
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Gueorgui Linev (redirect from Kan Wakan)
Gueorgui Iliev Linev, known professionally as Kan Wakan, is a Bulgarian-born, Los Angeles and UK-based electronic music producer, composer, songwriter...
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Wakan Q'allay (Quechua, waka cow, -n a suffix, q'allay to cut into small pieces, Hispanicized spelling Huajancallay) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru...
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Depiction of a mujina (from the Wakan Sansai Zue, Edo period)...
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Cautantowwit; also known as Kytan Shawnee: Wishemenetou Lakota: Wakan Tanka (Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka); Wakan Tanka literally means “Great Mystery” Gitche Manitou has been...
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Ningyo (section Ningyo in Wakan sansai zue)
as closely resembling the Western mermaid. (cf. § Ningyo in Wakan sansai zue) The Wakan sansai zue did also give notice and print the facsimile illustration...
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rock associated with the natural forces of the Earth). In the beginning, Wakáŋ Taŋka, The Great Mystery, reflected upon itself and created the four Superior...
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believed that there were also kakuen in Japan, and in the encyclopedia Wakan Sansai Zue from the same period, it was explained under the name "yamako"...
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"jack-o'-lantern" are translated into Japanese as "onibi". According to the Wakan Sansai Zue written in the Edo period, it was a blue light like a pine torchlight...
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Bdóte (section Wakaŋ Tipi site reclamation)
Council in 2017 as part of its engagement effort. The Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi ("those who care for Wakan Tipi", formerly known as the Lower Phalen Creek project)...
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Prohibition. The Dakota name for the river is Watpa waḳaŋ (Spirit(ual)/Mystic River), after Mille Lacs Lake (Mde waḳaŋ, Spirit(ual)/Mystic Lake). In 1702, d'Isle's...
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Mini-Wakan State Park is located north of Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States. The 20-acre (8.1 ha) park is along the north shore of Big Spirit Lake. It...
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Tomi Kay Phillips (Lakota: Cante Wakan Win) is an American (Hunkpapa-Miniconjou) educator and academic administrator who has served as the president of...
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seen as yōkai (causing strange occurrences). According to the encyclopedia Wakan Sansai Zue from the Edo period, a pack of weasels would cause conflagrations...
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limited to the Tsushima Domain (today part of Nagasaki Prefecture) and the wakan in Choryang (part of present-day Busan). There were also diplomatic exchanges...
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44. Yiwen leiju 藝文類聚, quoting from Shenyi jing. Jōfuku (1982), p. 193. Wakan sansai zue 和漢三才図会 quoting from Shenyi jing. Yamaoka Matsuake [in Japanese]...
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states that the bird is the transformation of a divine spirit. The Japanese Wakan Sansai Zue of the Edo period further states that due to the viscosity of...
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offering to the kami of Shinto shrines. According to the historical book Wakan Shuyo (和翰集要), the nodachi (野太刀) had a blade length of 3 shaku (traditional...
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peyote ceremony. Prior to 1890, traditional religious beliefs included Wakan Tanka. In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between...
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Shōjō (section Wakan sansai zue)
寓類・怪類:猩猩, Wakan Sansai zue 和漢三才図会, vol. 27 of 81, fol. 13a–13b Wyatt (2017), pp. 76–77. Terajima Ryōan [in Japanese] (1985) [1712], Wakan Sansai zue...
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cries, the ubume does too"), the Compendium of Materia Medica, and the Wakan Sansai Zue. The ubume's blood-soaked appearance is thought to be because...
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