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Visual depiction of Wakan Tanka

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Wakan Tanka

Lakota sacred mystery


suggested as infinite sky and earth, a great spirit felt in lightning, bison, and the four winds swirling around a medicine wheel

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.