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[edit] Redirect
I think we should change the redirect of Wakanda to Wakanda (comics), because most of the pages linked to it are Marvel related. --UltimatePyro 17:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
^^not mine, there are still lots of people throughout the world who hold this spiritual belief, and also - funny how indigenous people's spiritual beliefs are categorized as "myths or legends" in wikipedia, but not the events in the bible etc
"Myths," used correctly, means a cultural story to explain how something came to be in the world. It does not, in the strictest sense, imply falsehood. See Mythology. Matt White (talk) 00:40, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Wakan Tanka/ Great Spirit/Mystery
So is the original meaning of Wakan Tanka a little like the Hebrew word ELOHIM? ThePeg (talk) 03:08, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
- No, it basically means "ineffable," I think (since that sort of implies both "very important" and "incomprehensible"). As far as I can tell, the Sioux view of god(s) is sort of similar, in philosophy, to Neo-Platonism; their religious teachings involve statements that seem to be similar to the Platonic idea of Forms. ELOHIM is an "honorific plural" (somewhat like using "vous," the plural "you", to be polite in French) of the word LOAH, whose basic meaning seems to be "a god". The personal name of the Jews' God is YHWH, which means something like "I am," which may reflect the Jewish (and Christian) belief that God's nature is pure existence. Nagakura shin8 (talk) 10:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
