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The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota
The Sons of the Wind The Sacred Stories of the Lakota Author:James R. Walker, D. M. Dooling (Editor) The Sons of the Wind presents the mythology of the Oglala Lakota in an epic account of how it all began: the first stirring of loneliness in the heart of matter, the longing for relationship in the very rock, Inyan himself; the appearance of the Spirits and the animals and the first holy people, the friends and servants of the High Powe... more »rs; the making of the four times and the four directions, and all the increasing elaboration of relationships and their checks and balances until the coming on earth of the Real People, the Ikce Oyate -- and the consequent loss, left behind "under the earth," of another knowledge and another nature.
This is not a book for scholars; they already have a splendid presentation of the exact, though still somewhat fragmented, basic texts of James R. Walker's transcriptions collected between 1896 and 1914, with an excellent commentary in Elaine Jahner's Lakota Myth (1983). This is a book for lovers of myth; and whoever it was who first conceived these symbolic tales. D. M. Dooling's The Sons of the Wind is an eloquent and accessible rendering of the mighty Lakota creation myth from the original Walker transcription, and makes clear the marvelous range and subtlety of the Lakota imagination.« less