Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Possessed of supernatural power; awe-inspiring; sacred.
  • noun Something possessed of supernatural power.

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Examples

  • If he'd been Sioux, he'd have called it "wakanda."

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  • If he'd been Sioux, he'd have called it "wakanda."

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  • So the wakanda gave the child back to them; homeward they went with him.

    Myths and Legends of the Great Plains Unknown

  • But it was another wakanda who took her, and he promised to give her back if they would give him four white-haired dogs.

    Myths and Legends of the Great Plains Unknown

  • On the whole, it may be safe to consider the sun as the Siouan arch-mystery, with the mythic thunder-bird or family of thunder-birds as a sort of mediate link between the mysteries and men, possessing less power but displaying more activity in human affairs than the remoter wakanda of the heavens.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • Thus, among many of the tribes the sun is wakanda — not _the_ wakanda or _a_ wakanda, but simply wakanda; and among the same tribes the moon is wakanda, and so is thunder, lightning, the stars, the winds, the cedar, and various other things; even

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • In like manner many natural objects and places of striking character were considered wakanda.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • As used by the Siouan Indian, wakanda vaguely connotes also

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • So, too, the fetiches and the ceremonial objects and decorations were wakanda among different tribes.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • The moon was wakanda among the Osage and the stars among the Omaha and Ponka, yet they seem to have occupied subordinate positions; the winds and the four quarters were apparently given higher rank; and, in individual cases, the mythic water-monsters or earth-deities seem to have occupied leading positions.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

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