| 释义 |
‖ wakon|ˈweɪkən|
[Dakota wakaŋ ‘a spirit, something consecrated; taku wakaŋ and wakaŋ tanka, the Great Spirit’; subst. use of wakaŋ adj., ‘spiritual, sacred, consecrated’ (Riggs Gram. Dict. Dakota Lang.). J. F. Cooper (Prairie xxviii) has the form wahcondah.]
Among some American Indians, a spiritual being that is the object of religious reverence; also, a fetish: = Manitou.
1778J. Carver Trav. N. Amer. xiii. 381 The Chipéways call this being Manitou or Kitchi-Manitou; the Nadowessies, Wakon or Tongo-Wakon, that is, the Great Spirit. 1809A. Henry Trav. 299 They believe..in the spirits, gods, or manitos, whom they denominate wakons. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. II. liv. 166 On the surface of the rocks [are seen] their sculptured hieroglyphics—their wakons, totems, and medicines.
b. Comb.: wakon-bird, a fabulous bird venerated by the Indians.
1778J. Carver Trav. N. Amer. xviii. 473 The name they have given it is expressive of its superior excellence, and the veneration they have for it; the wakon bird being in their language the bird of the Great Spirit. 1806Moore To Lady Charl. Rawdon 75 Swift upon the purple plume Of my Wakon-Bird I fly Where [etc.]. |