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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>Appreciating all the
input from everyone, as each added more illumination of the entities
involved. Then, a look into the oral literature of the IOM and HO
(Winnebago), revealed the ancient relationship of two holy beings -- the
Thunderers and the Water Spirits. Each balancing the other as the former
arrives from the Heavens and the latter arrives from within the
earth.</FONT></DIV>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000080><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><FONT
color=#800000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt">NOTE</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Waká<SUP>n</SUP>da = God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<SPAN style="COLOR: blue">It may be
noted the </SPAN>similarity <SPAN style="COLOR: blue">of the word -
</SPAN>Waká<SUP>n</SUP>da<SPAN style="COLOR: blue"> – and the words</SPAN>
Maká<SUP>n</SUP><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"> (medicine) and</SPAN>
Waká<SUP>n</SUP><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"> (snake).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The shared root of the words is "</SPAN>
ká<SUP>n </SUP><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">" (holy; sacred; consecrated;
mysterios).</SPAN></SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; COLOR: navy"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></I><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">The term Wakánda is from:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
wa- (something, someone, the actor of the action, making the noun from the
verb), -</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">ká<SUP>n</SUP><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">-(</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">state
of being '</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> -ká<SUP>n</SUP><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">-</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">';
-da (a locative, to be located in a place (<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">a hill, a river, the sky</I>).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wakanda (<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">is</I>) someone or something so ancient and
beyond comprehension that is locatable in a direction, or in a
place</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue">". </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; COLOR: blue">(LMF)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><?xml:namespace
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>The traditional oral
literature tells that:</FONT></DIV>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000080><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">The symbolic representations
are actually clear and strong in the oral literature, as the Thunder Beings and
the Water Spirits belong to the oldest level of oral traditions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the opposition between two divine
beings in the Ioway, Otoe-Missouria social structure, the "Chéxita" (Thunderers)
and their arch-enemies, the Water Spirit, called "Ishéxi" (Horned Water
Panthers).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Among the Hochank
(Winnebago) there is a Wakandja (Thunderbird Clan) which is the largest and most
important of all their clans, and so was the lead of the Sky Clans.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is also a Wakdjexi (Water Spirit
Clan} who seem to lead the Earth Clans. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That the latter is a clan is interesting
in the fact that the Water Spirits are considered by both the Ioway,
Otoe-Missouria and Hochank (Winnebago) to be a continual enemy of <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>humans and the Thunderers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are considered to be capable of
good or evil, so they are to be feared. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the same time, they may be gallant and
are capable of confering great blessings on man..<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The two entities reflect the opposing
balance between the Heavens and Earth, a dualism that is reflected throughout
the Ioway, Otoe-Missouria and Hochank clans, kinship, society, spirituality and
in the utilitarian arts and crafts of the people. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; COLOR: blue">(JGT)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; COLOR: blue">(PR)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: blue">.</SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; COLOR: navy"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN></I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>I believe this new
information puts into perspective the relationship of words that share the root
"-kan" (sacred, consecrated, mysterious).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080 size=3>jimm</FONT></DIV>
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