468 A STUDY OF SIOUAN CUTS. 



THE DAWN. 



§ 215. When Bushotter's younger brother was siek on one occasion 

 he was made to pray to Anpao, The Dawn. The tent skins were thrown 

 back from the entrance and the sick boy was held up with the pahus 

 of his hands extended towards the light, while he repeated this prayer: 

 "Wakaij'taTjka, ui)'simala ye! Tehaij wauij' kte," i. e., "O Great Mys- 

 terious One, please pity me! Let me live a long time!" Then the 

 patient was laid back on his couch. While the sick boy prayed a 

 blanket was held up, and the next morning it was hung trom the top 

 of the tent. When the invalid recovered the blanket and a tobacco 

 pouch were taken to a hill and left there as sacrifices. The boy got 

 well, and the people believed that some mysterious power had cured 

 him. . • 



WEATHER SPIRIT. 



§ 216. The Teton say that a giant, called Waziya, knows when there 

 is to be a change of weather. When he travels his footprints are 

 large enough for several Indians to stand while they are abreast; and 

 his strides are far apart, for at one step he can go over a hill. When 

 it is cold the people say, " Waziya has returned." They iised to pray 

 to him, but when they found that he did not heed them they desisted. 

 When warm Aveather is to follow Waziya wraps himself in a thick 

 robe, and when it is to be cold he goes nude. The members of the 

 Hej'oka or Anti-natural Society love the acts of Waziya; so they 

 imitate him in always saying or doing the opposite of what might be 

 expected under the circumstances. Eiggs says,' "Waziya, the god of 

 the north, and Itokaga, the god of the south, are ever in conflict and 

 each in turn is victorious." 



HEYOKA. 



§ 217. Waziya and Heyoka are not fully diflerentiated. Heyoka, 

 according to Kiggs,^ is "the autinatural god." He is said to exist in 

 four varieties, all of which have the forms of small men. but all their 

 desires and experiences are contrary to nature. In the winter they 

 stand on the open prairie without clothing; in the summer they sit on 

 knolls wrapped in buft'alo robes, and yet they are freezing. Each of 

 them has in his hands and on his shoulders a bow and arrows, i-attles, 

 and a drum. All these are surcharged with lightning, and his drum- 

 stick is a little Wakinyan. The high mounds of the prairies are the 

 places of his abode. He presides over the land of dreams, and that is 

 why dreams are so fantastic. • 



§ 218. In speaking of the Heyoka gods, Pond says:^ 



Like the Wakiuyan, there are four varieties of them, all of which assume iu sub- 

 stance the human form, but it would be unnecessarily tedious to note the differences 



' Concerning Dakota Beliefs, in Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 3d An. Session. 1872, p. 5 



^Thcogony of the Sioux, p. 269. 



^Miun. Hi.st. Soc. Coll.. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 44. 



