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  2. Four Sacred Mountains of the Navajo - Wikipedia

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    The four sacred mountains in the cardinal directions of Navajo Country hold great importance. They are named in sunwise order and associated with the colors of the four cardinal directions: Sisnaajiní or Blanca Peak (white in the east), Tsoodził or Mt. Taylor (blue in the south), Doko’oosłííd or the San Francisco Peaks (yellow in the ...

  3. Lakota mythology - Wikipedia

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    The water could not retain his powers, and Skan was created. Maka complains to Inyan that everything is cold and dark, and so he creates Anpo, the Dawn. As Anpo's red light was not enough for Maka, Inyan creates Wi, the Sun. Maka now wanted to be separate from Inyan, so she appealed to Skan, who is now the supreme judge of the universe.

  4. Lakota religion - Wikipedia

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    In the Lakota worldview, there are six directions, each with an associated color: west (black), north (red), east (yellow), south (white), the earth (green), and the sky (blue). [135] The cross symbolism involving turning to the four directions is acted out in procedures such as the smoking of the pipe or the vison quest.

  5. List of Lakota deities - Wikipedia

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    The two-faced Spirit referred to as mother of the Four Winds, Yum the Whirlwind, and the daughter of the Pȟežúta (Medicine Men) Ka and Wa. She is also known as Wakanka, the elderly woman. [1] Tate - The wind Spirit. Taku Skanskan - Capricious chaotic spirit who is master of the four winds and the four-night spirits, Raven, Vulture, Wolf, Fox.

  6. Indigenous architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A flap in the animal skins serves as a doorway, and a hole in the center of the tepee’s roof allows smoke and heat to escape. In Lakota culture, the four sides of a tepee represent both space and time. The tepee itself symbolizes the world, with each corner embodying one of the four cardinal directions. [6]

  7. Thunderbird (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The thunderbirds lived in the four directions and arrived with the other birds in the springtime. In the fall, they migrated south after the end of the underwater spirits' most dangerous season. In the fall, they migrated south after the end of the underwater spirits' most dangerous season.

  8. Zia people (New Mexico) - Wikipedia

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    Four is the sacred number of the Zia and can be found repeated in the four points radiating from the circle. The number four is embodied in: the four points of the compass (north, south, east, and west) the four seasons of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) the four periods of each day (morning, noon, evening, and night)

  9. Cherokee spiritual beliefs - Wikipedia

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    ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...