Tapun Sa Win

Mortal Lakota woman, mother of Wicháȟpi Hiŋȟpáya. Cognate to So-at-sa-ki in the Blackfoot Star Husband cycle; same trans-Plains story type.

Children

• Wicháȟpi Hiŋȟpáya

Powers

• braided a long rope to climb down from the sky world
• dug up a wild-turnip plant and so opened a hole in the sky

Relations

• spouse: Star-Man of the Sky NationReciprocal of star_man.spouse — The 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 (1917) (secondary)