Mi

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.

Children

• Ictinike

Domains

• sun
• sky

Powers

• orders the daily round and ceremonial orientation

Epithets

• Miⁿ — the SunFletcher & La Flesche, 'The Omaha Tribe,' BAE 27th Annual Report (1911), p. 599. (primary)

Relations

• child: IctinikeIn the recorded trickster cycle the Sun casts down his son Ictinike to the earth.Dorsey, 'The Cegiha Language,' Contributions to North American Ethnology VI (1890), Ictinike cycle. (secondary)

Sources

• The Sun is honored among the greatest manifestations of Wakonda and, in the trickster cycle, is the father who casts down Ictinike.: Fletcher & La Flesche, 'The Omaha Tribe,' BAE 27th Annual Report (1911), pp. 599-600. (primary); Dorsey, 'The Cegiha Language,' Contributions to North American Ethnology VI (1890). (secondary)