Mi, the sun, was counted among the greatest manifestations of Wakonda and was invoked at dawn and in the pipe and war rites. In the widely recorded Omaha-Ponca trickster cycle the Sun is the father of Ictinike, whom he casts down to the earth after the son gives offense; thereafter Ictinike wanders the world. The sun's daily course ordered ceremonial orientation, and the warrior and hunting societies appealed to its light and life-giving heat.