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Márohu. God of the moon and of rain, rainstorms, and floods; Boinayel's twin brother. Maketaori Guayaba. The god of Coaybay or Coabey, the land of the dead. Opiyel Guabiron. A dog-shaped god that watched over the dead; often associated with the Greek Cerberus.
Enemy of Mica. Tatankan Gnaskiyan (Crazy Buffalo) - The malevolent spirit who wreaks havoc on love affairs, causing feuds, murders, and suicides. Wambli - The Eagle Spirit of councils, hunting skills, and battle. Zuzeca - The Snake Spirit of hidden things, concealed knowledge, and outright lies.
Lakota religion. A Dream of a Wakíŋyaŋ, one of the sky spirits associated with thunder and lightning, by Lakota artist Black Hawk, ca. 1880. Lakota religion or Lakota spirituality is the traditional Native American religion of the Lakota people. It is practiced primarily in the North American Great Plains, within Lakota communities on ...
Choctaw mythology is part of the culture of the Choctaw, a Native American tribe originally occupying a large territory in the present-day Southeastern United States: much of the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. In the 19th century, the Choctaw were known to European Americans as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" even though ...
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 ...
Native American Mythology. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-12279-3. Bastian, Dawn Elaine; Judy K. Mitchell (2004). Handbook of Native American Mythology. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-533-9. Erdoes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfonso: American Indian Myths and Legends (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984) Ferguson, Diana (2001). Native American myths ...
Pawnee mythology is the body of oral history, cosmology, and myths of the Pawnee people concerning their gods and heroes. The Pawnee are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans , originally located on the Great Plains along tributaries of the Missouri and Platte Rivers in Nebraska and Kansas and currently located in Oklahoma .
Native American religions. Native American religions, [1][2][3][4][5] Native American faith[6] or American Indian religions[7][8][9][10][11] are the indigenous spiritual practices of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Ceremonial ways can vary widely and are based on the differing histories and beliefs of individual nations, tribes and bands.