[132] That is, the Takuśkaŋśkaŋ.
[133] Geikie, in his Hours with the Bible (New York: James Pott. 1881), Vol. I, p. 55, has the following quotation from Das Buch Henoch, edited by Dillmann, Kap. 17, 18: “And I saw the cornerstone of the earth and the four winds which bear up the earth, and the firmament of heaven.”
[134] Note that both the Takuśkaŋśkaŋ, the “Something that Moves,” and the Wakiŋyaŋ or the Thunder-beings, are associated with war.—J. O. D.
[135] Rept. Peabody Museum, Vol. III, p. 289, and note 1. The use of the number twelve in connection with the ceremony of the Four Winds finds a counterpart in the Osage initiation of a female into the secret society of the tribe; the Osage female is rubbed from head to foot, thrice in front, thrice on each side, and thrice behind, with cedar needles.—J. O. D.
[136] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 3, p. 44.
[137] Op. cit., p. 136.
[138] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 3, p. 71.
[139] Ibid., p. 79.
[140] Ibid., p. 81.
[141] Ibid., p. 84.