Poïa
Blackfoot · demigod · star stories · Recorded classification
Born scarred and ridiculed; journeyed to the Sun (his grandfather Naatosi), had his scar removed, and brought the Okán Sun Dance back to the Blackfoot. Among the most important origin-of-ritual figures in Plains tradition.
Parentage
- paternal: Ipi'sowaahs
- maternal: So-at-sa-ki
Powers
- sun dance instruction
- celestial passage
- Institute the Sun Dance
- Ascend to the Sun's lodge
Epithets
- Scarface Star Boy, who journeyed to the Sun, had his scar removed, and brought the people the Sun DanceGeorge Bird Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales (1892) (secondary); Wissler & Duvall (1908) (secondary)
- parentage: Grinnell (secondary)