The Wendigo (also Windigo, Wiindigoo, and numerous other variants, since the word appears in many different Native American languages and dialects) is a spirit in Native American mythology. It has also become a stock horror character much like the vampire or werewolf, although these fictional depictions often do not bear much resemblance to the original mythology. Wendigo - The Wendigo in Native American mythology. In the mythology of the Algonquin-speaking tribes of Native Americans, the W ...

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Wendigo - The Wendigo in Native American mythology Wendigo - The Wendigo in literature Wendigo - The Wendigo in film and television Wendigo - Other culture

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Wendigo, Wendigo - The Wendigo in Native American mythology, Wendigo - The Wendigo in literature, Wendigo - The Wendigo in film and television, Wendigo - Other culture

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Many Neopagans and Wiccans believe that the entire Universe continues in endless cycles of birth, death, and rebirth. Some have argued that the Marxist belief in global Communism is a form of eschatology. ...

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Eschatology, Eschatology - Buddhism, Eschatology - Christianity, Eschatology - Hinduism, Eschatology - Islam, Eschatology - Judaism, Eschatology - Native American, Eschatology - Hopi, Eschatology - Mayans, Eschatology - Sioux, Eschatology - Norse mythology, Eschatology - Zoroastrianism, Eschatology - Prophetic movements, Eschatology - Other religions

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Many Neopagans and Wiccans believe that the entire Universe continues in endless cycles of birth, death, and rebirth. The Magic Bills believe that when the Eich discovers his own purpose, the universe will implode into him, creating another Eich and the Dynaverse. ...

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Several Native American tribes have similar beliefs concerning the end times. Eschatology - Hopi. Tribal leaders of the Hopi tribe, such as Dan Evehama, Thomas Banyaca and Martin Gashwaseoma prophecize that the coming of the white man signals the end times, along with a strange beast "like a buffalo but with great horns that would overrun the land" (i.e. cattle). It is prophesized that during the end times the earth would be crossed by iron snakes and stone rivers, (i.e. railroads), and the land would be criss-crossed by a giant spider's web (i.e. freeway ...

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Eschatology, Eschatology - Buddhism, Eschatology - Christianity, Eschatology - Hinduism, Eschatology - Islam, Eschatology - Judaism, Eschatology - Native American, Eschatology - Hopi, Eschatology - Mayans, Eschatology - Sioux, Eschatology - Norse mythology, Eschatology - Zoroastrianism, Eschatology - Prophetic movements, Eschatology - Other religions

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Several Native American tribes have similar beliefs concerning the end times. Eschatology - Hopi. Tribal leaders of the Hopi tribe, such as Dan Evehama, Thomas Banyaca and Martin Gashwaseoma prophecize that the coming of the white man signals the end times, along with a strange beast "like a buffalo but with great horns that would overrun the land" (i.e. cattle). It is prophesized that during the end times the earth would be crossed by iron snakes and stone rivers, (i.e. railroads), and the land would be criss-crossed by a giant spider's web (i.e. freeway ...

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Eschatology, Eschatology - Buddhism, Eschatology - Christianity, Eschatology - Hinduism, Eschatology - Islam, Eschatology - Judaism, Eschatology - Native American, Eschatology - Hopi, Eschatology - Mayans, Eschatology - Sioux, Eschatology - Norse mythology, Eschatology - Zoroastrianism, Eschatology - Prophetic movements, Eschatology - Other religions, Eschatology - Philosophy

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Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in ...

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Native Americans in the United States - Early history
Native Americans in the United States - The Bering Strait Land Bridge theory Native Americans in the United States - Settling down
Native Americans in the United States - European colonization
Native Americans in the United States - Initial impacts Native Americans in the United States - Early relations Native Americans in the United States - Removal and reservations Native Americans in the United States - Current status
Native Americans in the United States - Cultural aspects
Native Americans in the United States - Society Native Americans in the United States - Religion Native Americans in the United States - Gender roles Native Americans in the United States - Music and art Native Americans in the United States - Economy
Native Americans in the United States - Terminology differences
Native Americans in the United States - Common usage in the U.S.
Native Americans in the United States - Bibliography

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Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος meaning "last" + -logy) is a part of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or the ultimate destiny of human kind, commonly phrased as the end of the world. In many religions, the end of the world is a future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore. More broadly, eschatology may encompass related concepts such as the Messiah or Messianic Age, the afterlife, and the soul. The Greek word αιών means "age"; some translation ...

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Eschatology - Hopi Eschatology - Mayans Eschatology - Sioux
Eschatology - Norse mythology Eschatology - Zoroastrianism Eschatology - Prophetic movements Eschatology - Other religions

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Christians in the 1st century AD believed the end of the world would come during their lifetime. Jesus in Mark 13:8 compared the end of the world with a mother's birth pain, and the image implied the world was already pregnant with its own destruction, but no one but God knows when it will happen. When the converts of Paul in Thessalonica were persecuted by the Roman Empire, they believed the end was upon them. However, doubt rose when as early as the 90s Christians said, "We have heard these things [of the end of the world] even in the days ...

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Eschatology, Eschatology - Buddhism, Eschatology - Christianity, Eschatology - Hinduism, Eschatology - Islam, Eschatology - Judaism, Eschatology - Native American, Eschatology - Hopi, Eschatology - Mayans, Eschatology - Sioux, Eschatology - Norse mythology, Eschatology - Zoroastrianism, Eschatology - Prophetic movements, Eschatology - Other religions

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The swastika (from Sanskrit svastika) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles either left-facing (卍) or right-facing (卐). It is traditionally oriented so that a main line is horizontal, though it is occasionally rotated at forty-five degrees, and the Hindu version is often decorated with a dot in each quadrant. ...

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Swastika - Overview Swastika - Etymology and alternative names Swastika - History
Swastika - Adoption of the swastika in the West
Swastika - Geometry and symbolism
Swastika - Sauwastika
Swastika - Art and architecture Swastika - Religion and mythology
Swastika - Hinduism Swastika - Buddhism Swastika - Jainism Swastika - The Abrahamic religions Swastika - Other Asian traditions Swastika - Native American traditions Swastika - Pre-Christian European traditions Swastika - Asatru
Swastika - Early 20th century
Swastika - Europe Swastika - North America
Swastika - Nazi Germany Swastika - Taboo in Western countries Swastika - Apperance in Media

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In Native American mythology (particularly in the Cherokee tribe) the Ani Hyuntikwalaski ("Thunder Beings") are beings that cause lightning fire in a hollow sycamore tree. Ani Hyuntikwalaski is also the name of the Western Marker of The Lost Island Stonecircle. Other related archivesCherokee, Native American mythology, lightning

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In Hopi mythology, Angwusnasomtaka is a kachina, a spirit represented by a masked doll (also called a kachina). She is a wuya, one of the chief kachinas and is considered the mother of all the hú and all the kachinas. She led the initiation rites for new children, whipping them with yucca whips. Category: Native American mythology Other related archivesHopi mythology, Native American mythology, doll, kachina, whips, wuya, yucca

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The Blackfoot are a tribe of Native Americans who currently live in Montana. They lived west of the Great Lakes and lived in Montana and Alberta and participated in Plains Indian culture. Blackfoot mythology - Cosmology. In Blackfoot mythology there is also a supernatural world, dominated above the natural world by the sun, and below by the beaver. The sun is sometimes personified by the part human Napi, or Old Man. The area in which the Blackfoot lived was created by Old Man exploring the area on his way n ...

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Blackfoot mythology - Cosmology Blackfoot mythology - Misc Blackfoot mythology - The Buffalo Dance Blackfoot mythology - Source

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The Abenaki (also Wabanaki) are a Native American tribe located in the northeastern United States. Religious ceremonies are led by shamans, called Medeoulin (Mdawinno). The history of the Abenaki people is divided into three time periods. In the first, the Ancient Age, humanity and animal-life are undifferentiated. In the second, the Golden Age, animals are still humans, but quantitatively different. In the third, the Present Age, animals and humanity are totally differentiated. Abenaki mythology - Beings of the Golden A ...

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Abenaki mythology - Beings of the Golden Age
Abenaki mythology - Gluskab and Malsumis
Abenaki mythology - Beings of the Present Age Abenaki mythology - External link

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The Ute are a tribe of Native Americans from the western United States. Siats is a cannibalistic clown monster. Cin-an-ev is a wolf trickster and culture hero. The Ute especially venerated a bear spirit, who occasionally went on killing sprees. Sunuwavi, a Ute hero, once rescued his people from this by finding the qumu, the bear's fire medicine (spiritual power), and covering it with water, thus ending the spirit's power. Categories: Native American mythology | Ute ...

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The Choctaw are a tribe of Native Americans from southeastern United States, mostly near the Mississippi River. The Choctaw venerated Sint Holo, a horned serpent which visited unusually wise young men. Choctaw mythology - Arrival. Chata and Chicksaw, two brothers, led a tribe from the west, guided by a magical pole which, when placed in the ground, leaned towards the correct direction of travel. They stopped where the pole stood upright. They buried their ancestors' bones (carried from the west) in ...

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Choctaw mythology - Arrival

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The Creek are a tribe of Native Americans from the southeastern United States. The shaman was called an Alektca. Creek mythology - Creation. The Creek believe that the world was originally entirely underwater. The only land was a hill, called Nunne Chaha, and on the hill was a house, wherein lived Esaugetuh Emissee ("master of breath"). He created humanity from the clay on the hill. The Creek also venerated the horned serpent Sint Holo, who appeared to suitably wise young men. Hisagita-imisi ...

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The Cherokee are a Native American culture who mainly live in the southeastern United States and in Oklahoma. The Cherokee venerated the horned serpent Sint Holo, who appeared to extremely intelligent and resourceful male youths (although in general Cherokees viewed that snakes could block spiritual blessings to a persons home, therefore, it was traditional for Cherokees to never keep any object made from or resembling a snake, or part of a snake in their home), as well as Tsul 'Kalu, a god of the hunt and Oonawieh Unggi ("the oldest wind"), ...

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Cherokee mythology - Kana'ti and Selu

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According to Native American Hopi mythology, the current world, the Fourth World, is coming to an end. The beginning of the imminent Fifth World will be heralded by the arrival of a being known as Pahana, or the lost "White Brother". Other related archivesFourth World, Hopi, Native American, Pahana, mythology

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Coyote is a mythological figure common to many Native American cultures, based on the coyote animal. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic although he may have some coyote-like physical features such as fur. Coyote mythology - Coyote in mythology. Coyote mythology - The trickster. He often plays the role of trickster, although in some stories he is a buffoon and the butt of jokes and in a few is outright evil. His personality traits are usually greed, r ...

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Coyote mythology - Coyote in mythology
Coyote mythology - The trickster Coyote mythology - The creator Coyote mythology - The culture hero
Coyote mythology - Coyote in the modern world
Coyote mythology - Coyote in popular culture

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