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Wakan Tanka
(myth) U.S.A.

Wakan Tanka

Supreme deity

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Sioux = "great mystery", usually rendered in English as either "Great Spirit" or "Creator". Wakan Tanka (also spelled Takan) is the supreme deity, personified as the Creator of the world and all things in it, a hermaphrodite being that brought forth men and women from its own body.

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