386 A STUDY OF SIOUAN CULTS. 



Wheu tbe war pipe is smoked by any Hanga man, he holds the pipe 

 in his right hand, and blows the smoke into the sacred clam shell, in his 

 left. The smoke ascends from the clam shell to the Thunder-being, to 

 whom it is pleasant. 



The Kausa used to "cry to" the Thunder-being before going on the 

 warjjath. When the captain (the head of the Large Hanga gens) ' 

 smoked his pipe, he used to say, Hau, Wakauda-6, P%i°-maha° mi"' 



Ho J O Wakanda! SWdi one 



ts'e ku^'bla eyau," i. e. "Ho, Wakanda! I really wish a Skidi" (or, 



to die I wish indeed 



Pawnee Loup) " to die!" 



The men of the two Hanga gentes unite in singing songs to stop 

 rain, when fair weather is needed, and songs to cause rain when there 

 has been a drought. (See § 43.) 



SUBTERKANEAN AND SUBAQUATIC WAKANDAS. 



§ 37. The Omaha and Ponka believe in the Wakandagi, monsters that 

 dwell beneath the bluffs and in the Jlissouri river. These monsters 

 have very long bodies, with horns on their heads. One myth relates 

 how an orphan killed a Wakandagi with seven heads.' 



The Omaha have a tradition that a Wakandagi was seen in the lake 

 into which Blackbird creek empties, near the Omaha agency. It is 

 impossible to say whether the Wakandagi and the j^aude or Ground 

 were ditt'erentiatted (See § 27). The Kansa Mi-a-h2 cka were somewhat 

 like the Wakandagi, though in one respect they resembled the myth- 

 ical jil-snu-ta of the Omaha, i. e., in having enormous heads. The 

 Kansa speak of the Mialneka as a race of dreadful beings witli large 

 heads and long hair.^ They dwelt in remote places, to which tbey were 

 supposed to entice any unwary Indian who traveled alone. The victim 

 became crazy and subsequently lived as a mi"quga or catamite. Some 

 of the Mialucka dwelt undergronnd or in tlie water, sitting close to 

 the bank of the stream. The ancient Mialucka was a benefactor to 

 the Indians, for he took some wet clay and made first a buffalo calf and 

 then three buftalo bulls, which he ordered the Indians to shoot, after 

 teaching them how to make bows and arrows and to use them. 



THE 1NDA(/!INGA. 



§ 38. The Ponka, in 1871, told the author of a being whom they called 

 the Indafinga. This being was a superhuman character, who dwelt in 

 the foi-ests. He hooted like an owl, and he was so i)owerful. that he 

 could uproot a tree or overturn a lodge. The Ponka had a song about 

 him, and mothers used to scare their children by saying, "Behave, 

 else the I nda((inga will catch you!" Joseph La Fleclie had heard it 

 spoken of as a monster in human shape, covered with thick hair. As 



'Coiitr. ?f. A. Ethn., vol. VI, ji]!. 108-131. 



'Compare the hair of the Thunder-men, in Contr. N. A. Etbn., vol. vl, pp. 187, 188. 



