Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in by William K. Powers
By William K. Powers
This can be a publication of the supernatural setting the yank Indians lived below. The content material describes the tools they used to steer their existence.
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They also have the power to come to the aid of common people during times of duress and hardship and Page 4 are capable of curing illnesses and diseases through the intercession of a medicine man. These supernaturals may be propitiated by both common people and medicine men and women through the proper prayers and songs, but all rituals must be supervised by medicine men. Medicine men are ''chosen," one might say, as a result of recurring encounters with sickness, depression, melancholy, or general malaise which most of them begin to experience in their adolescence.
The following examples demonstrate how secular ideas are transformed into sacred ones by the addition of kan: Page 31 English GlossCommon TermSacred Term Mother EarthMaka InaMakakanSun(Anpetu) WiWikanMoon(Hanhepi) WiHanwikanRockInyanInyankanWindTateTatekan Words that have been transformed by another process such as attenuation may also take the kan suffix. For example, Sword refers to Yumnikan (from wamniomni abbreviated to Yumni) when speaking of the mythological younger brother to the Four Winds.
Who, in addition to being Curator of the Red Cloud Indian Art Show and Director of the Heritage Center, provided me with everything from rare books to rare moments. Without his constant help the completion of this book would have been seriously delayed. Without his sense of humor the tedium of writing might have been less bearable. Finally, my thanks to the American Philosophical Society and the Rutgers Research Council, for support in 1966, 1967, and 1971; and to the Rutgers Research Council for support in 1981.