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قراءة كتاب A Study of Siouan Cults Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544
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A Study of Siouan Cults Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
A STUDY OF SIOUAN CULTS.
BY
JAMES OWEN DORSEY.
CONTENTS.
| Page. | |
| CHAPTER I.—Introduction | 361 |
| Definitions of “Cult” and “Siouan” | 361 |
| Siouan Family | 361 |
| Authorities | 361 |
| Alphabet | 363 |
| Abbreviations | 364 |
| CHAPTER II.—Definitions | 365 |
| Alleged belief in a Great Spirit | 365 |
| Phenomena divided into human and superhuman | 365 |
| Terms for “mysterious,” “lightning,” etc. | 366 |
| Other Omaha and Ponka terms | 367 |
| Significance of personal names and kinship terms | 368 |
| Myth and legend distinguished from the superhuman | 368 |
| CHAPTER III.—Cults of the Omaha, Ponka, Kansa, and Osage | 371 |
| Beliefs and practices not found | 371 |
| Omaha, Ponka, and Kansa belief in a wakanda | 372 |
| Seven great wakandas | 372 |
| Invocation of warmth and streams | 372 |
| Prayer to wakanda | 373 |
| Accessories of prayer | 373 |
| Omaha and Kansa expressions about wakanda | 374 |
| Ponka belief about malevolent spirits | 374 |
| An old Omaha custom | 375 |
| The sun a wakanda | 376 |
| Invocations | 376 |
| The offering of tobacco | 377 |
| The Ponka sun dance of 1873 | 378 |
| The moon a wakanda | 378 |
| Berdaches | 378 |
| Stars as wakandas | 379 |
| The winds as wakandas | 380 |
| Invocation |