Star-Man of the Sky Nation

Star of the Sky Nation. Father of Wicháȟpi Hiŋȟpáya (Fallen Star) by the mortal Lakota woman Tapun Sa Win.

Children

• Wicháȟpi Hiŋȟpáya

Powers

• celestial luminance
• sky passage
• Live and shine as a sky-being

Relations

• spouse: Tapun Sa WinThe Lakota Star-Husband: the sky man wed the woman who climbed to the Sky Country; she fell back to earth bearing Fallen Star.James R. Walker, Lakota Myth (ed. Elaine Jahner, 1983) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Walker, The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala (1917) (secondary); Dorsey, A Study of Siouan Cults (1894) (secondary)