Evening Star

The Evening Star is the star of the western twilight, reckoned the female star and the counterpart of the male Morning Star. In the Osage genesis the ancestors who lived among the stars were counseled by four powers, the god of Day, the god of Night, the male star, and the female star, before they came down to the earth. She is numbered among the star people, children of the Sun and Moon, and her pairing with the Morning Star expresses the male and female balance that runs through Osage cosmology.

Parentage

• paternal: Grandfather the Sun
• maternal: Grandmother the Moon

Domains

• stars
• celestial light

Powers

• counsels the people in their descent to earth

Epithets

• Mi-ka-k'e mi-ga — the Female Star (Evening Star)Duncan & Diaz-Granados, 'The Cosmology of the Osage' (2004). (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: Morning StarDuncan & Diaz-Granados, 'The Cosmology of the Osage' (2004). (secondary)
• sibling: The Radiant StarDuncan & Diaz-Granados, 'The Cosmology of the Osage' (2004). (secondary)

Sources

• The Evening Star, the female star, is one of the four powers who counsel the Little Ones and a child of the Celestial Family.: Osage Creation Story, Arkansas Archeological Survey, 'Indians of Arkansas.' (secondary); Duncan & Diaz-Granados, 'The Cosmology of the Osage' (2004). (secondary)