Ictinike, also recorded as Ishtinike, is the trickster and false culture-hero of the Omaha and Ponca. Dorsey's Cegiha texts make him the son of the Sun, thrown down to the earth for an offense; thereafter he wanders the world deceiving animals and people, is himself repeatedly duped, and through his blunders and appetites inadvertently establishes features of the present world. He is at once cunning and foolish, a figure whose broken promises and greed drive one of the largest recorded Omaha-Ponca story cycles.