Wikipedia
Wakan may refer to:
- Wakan, meaning "powerful" or "sacred" in the Lakota language
- Wakan, the original Lakota name for the Rum River of Minnesota
- Wakan Tanka (variant name), the "Great Spirit," "sacred" or the "divine" as understood by the Lakota people
- A Japanese word (和館, lit. "Japan hall/building") used to describe historical Japanese settlements and missions in foreign countries. See waegwan, the Korean reading of the word
- Wakan rōeishū 和漢朗詠集: A Collection of Chinese and Japanese Poems
Usage examples of "wakan".
Crazy Horse lit his pipe and after offering it to Mother Earth and Wakan Tanka and the four directions, he handed it to Jess.
Okute had tried to explain it to her, telling her that the Lakota believed that a man, or woman, received power from Wakan Tanka, the Great Mystery, whose spirit was in all and through all.
You can pray to the Great Jehovah or Wakan Tonka for all my department will pester you.
The shaman took me through the inipi ceremony and sent me up the hill to receive the wakan, the holy beings.
Only those who were pure in body and spirit could expect to find communion with Wakan Tanka.
Shivering from the cold, his, belly empty, his throat dry, he rose to his feet and sang his dawn song to Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, who was the center of all life.
Filled with a sense of peace, he again made an offering of tobacco to the earth and the sky and the four winds, and then he murmured a fervent prayer of thanksgiving to Wakan Tanka.
She knows that Migwan had to work hard for her Wakan honors because above the first one there are two Shuta buttons and a Keda, showing that her first efforts won only third and second class honors, but she persevered until she reached the first class.