Tȟaté, the Wind, is an Associate God, created by Škáŋ to be his companion and the agent of his will at the center of the world. He married Ité before her transformation into the two-faced Aŋóg Ité, and fathered the Four Winds (Tȟaté Tób) — the West (Eyá), North (Wazíya/Yatá), East (Yaŋpá), and South (Okáǧa) — whom he dispatched to the cardinal quarters, together with the late-born Whirlwind (Yumní). The cycle of the Four Winds underlies much Lakota ritual and the round of the year.