An indigenous pantheon. This is sorted by tribe.
The Tobtob Kin
The "light" gods, but remember, Light Is Not Good. These gods tend to be more rational than the others.
Inyan
The first life form. Created all the other gods.
- Adam and Eve Plot
- Dishing Out Dirt
- Double Standard: Wakinyan doesn't have a problem with him getting with Unk, but had a huge problem with Unk getting with him!
- Magma Man
Maká
The spirit of the Earth.
- Dishing Out Dirt
- Green Thumb
- It's All About Me: Especially when she was younger.
- AcCENT On The Wrong SylLABle: Maká means "land". Máka means "skunk".
- The Smurfette Principle: When listed with the directions, she's the only female.
Wi
The sun spirit. Associated with masculinity. This connection is one reason the word for "summer", bloketu, derives from the word for "male".
- Chick Magnet: He's the spirit of masculinity for a reason.
- Double Standard: Ite's helping Wi cheat was treated a lot worse than Wi's cheating.
- Light 'em Up
- Playing with Fire
- The Power of the Sun
Taku Skanskan
That which brings movement. Also the spirit of the sky.
Wakinyan
Inyan's companion. Hates pollution of any kind. Spirit of thunder. Is a bird.
- Blow You Away
- Did You Just Punch Out Unktehi?
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Lightning beats water.
- Four Is Death: There are four main wakinyan, of which he's the main one. Oddly a heroic example.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Seeing one will make you do everything backward.
- Hermaphrodite
- Light 'em Up
- Mega Manning: After defeating the Unktehi, gained control over water.
- No Swastikas: His traditional symbol. Not used much these days, for obvious reasons.
- Our Angels Are Different: In a syncretic context, often associated with angels, especially Michael. So maybe not so different.
- The Phoenix
- Playing with Fire
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis
- The Power of Rock: There's a reason so many ceremonies involve a lot of music, percussions in particular.
- The Power of Rock: Any percussion instrument will scare away evil.
- Shock and Awe
- Yandere: Has hated Unk ever since Unk was with Inyan.
Wohpe/Pte San Win
Maká's daughter. The spirit of all things feminine.
- Body Horror: Do not think about her sexually.
- Disproportionate Retribution: A man wanted to sleep with her, and she said "Do as you will." Then when he approached her, he was covered in a cloud and died a fairly horrible death.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: And how!
- Public Domain Artifact: The pipe.
- Women's Mysteries: Naturally. Oddly gave the men their ceremonies as well.
Wi Win
Wi's ex-wife. The spirit of the moon.
- Amicably Divorced: Though she does hide from Wi.
- Lunacy
Tate
Taku Skanskan's brother. Spirit of the wind.
- Family Business: His sons are wind spirits too.
Tatanka
The spirit of ceremonies. Became a god along with his friend, Hu Nunp.
- Animal Motifs: His name means buffalo.
- Body Motifs: Buffalo skulls are used in ceremonies.
- Gag Penis: He is a buffalo, after all. More to the point, portrayals of men and male bison in such a fashion are common at the Sundance.
- Godhood Seeker: Succeeded, even. The other gods didn't even mind!
Hu Nunp
The spirit of wisdom and Tatanka's friend.
- Animal Motifs: The bear. (It's semi-bipedal.)
- Body Motifs: His name means "two legs".
- Godhood Seeker: Like his friend, he became a god.
Tate Tob
The four winds. The sons of Tate and Ite.
- Adam and Eve Plot: In some stories, they're the male ancestors of mankind.
- Cain and Abel: Over a woman, of course.
- Color-Coded Characters: Eya as black, Yata as white, Yanpa as yellow, and Okaga as red.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: In order, Okaga (south), Yata (north), and Eya (west)
- Five-Man Band: Okaga's The Hero (being represented by red), Yata's The Lancer (being the coldest to Okaga's passion), Eya's The Smart Guy (because of his lightning association), Yanpa's laziness makes him The Big Guy, and their last brother Yumni pulls double duty as The Heart (god of love) and Sixth Ranger.
- The Four Gods: Literally and in the sense of "four directions".
- Freudian Excuse: Their mother ruined the old order, so they create a new order.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: Wohpe chooses Okaga, the South Wind. He's represented by red.
- Love-Obstructing Parents: In the sense that none of them want Wohpe to marry any of the other three.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: And not the one you would think: Okaga has this in spades.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Okaga in recent portrayals.
Yumni
The four winds' brother. Or half-brother, depending on the version you hear.
- Blow You Away: He's the whirlwind.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Same mom as his brothers, different dad.
- Older Than They Look: He will forever be a child because of his mother's attempts to seduce Wi.
- Sixth Ranger: Along with Taku Skanskan and Maká.
Nagi, Nagila, Ni, and Sicun
- A God Is You: They're part of you.
- Four Is Death: When you die, they separate.
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I Am Not Shazam: Sicun is not the origin of wasicu.
The Wakan Sica
The evil gods. Associated in syncretism with Satan. Dark Is Not Evil, though, and sometimes they can be quite useful. And they form a Five-Man Band too!
Unk
The original Wakan Sica, she is the Big Bad of many a myth.
- Serial Homewrecker: Sleeps with other women's husbands and with the sons of such a union.
- Trope Namer: Many of her children are named after her.
- Villainous Incest: Adding insult to injury, after having a son by another woman (relatively)'s husband, she then gets pregnant by that boy's
Iya
Unk's son and lover. They make many monsters together. His name means "mouth", and he consumes everything.
- Blow You Away: Manifests in storms.
- Villainous Incest: Plains Indians did not tolerate incest traditionally, to the point of killing not only those who commit incest, but the children of such unions. Expect lots of incest.
Gnaskipeya
Iya's son and half-brother. Tends toward trickery. While Iya consumes everything, Gnaskipeya is ruled by his sexual urges.
- Animal Motifs: Can appear as if he were Tatanka, the Buffalo God, and is thus referred to as the Crazy Buffalo.
- The Corrupter: Disguised himself as Ksa and introduced vices to humanity's predecessors.
- Evil Genius: Before Inktomi joined them.
- Gag Penis: Often portrayed this way.
- Master of Disguise: Takes the forms of other gods - mainly Tatanka and Ksa - for the sake of spreading evil and corruption through these guises.
- Mons: In one particular story.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Inktomi is more a genius, albeit less evil.
- Treacherous Advisor: When disguised as Ksa.
Inktomi (more commonly Iktomi)
Formerly Ksa, the god of wisdom, he lost a mon battle to Gnaskipeya and decided toward chaos.
- Animal Motifs: His name means "spider".
- Dark Is Not Evil: Sometimes helps people out, and can even be a Trickster Mentor.
- Depraved Bisexual: To be fair most of his depravity is with women, though he does at one point have sex with his nephew.
- Did You Just Punch Out Iya? He did, going inside Iya and cutting him open.
- I Am Not Shazam: He is not Coyote.
- Mons: A loss in this battle leads to his Start of Darkness.
- The Paragon Always Rebels: Boy, howdy...
- Sadly Mythtaken: He is not analogous to Satan.
- Sixth Ranger: To the Wakan Sica.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: To the Wakan Tanka. And sometimes to the Wakan Sica. In fact, this is really his favorite role.
- Token Good Teammate: Though "good" is relative.
- Trickster Mentor / Stealth Mentor: Is obligated to spread wisdom even as a member of the Wakan Sica.
Ite
Tate's ex-wife and the mother of his children.
- Godhood Seeker: Why she pursued an affair with Wi in the first place.
- Uke: If you see her in a vision, you have to put on a dress and pursue other men.
Uncegila
One of the monsters Unk and her sons produce. Yes, Villainous Incest is at it again.
- Deal with the Devil: Kill her, and everything will be answered.
- Eye Scream: Seeing her blinds you at first...
- Go Mad from the Revelation: ...and then you go mad and rabid...
- Four Is Death: ...and on the fourth day, you die.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Is pretty much the Lakota equivalent of one; a giant horned serpent with 7 spots along its body which also happens to be an Eldritch Abomination, and looking upon her 7th spot blinds you, drives you insane, and kills you and your entire family.
Unktehi
The Unktehi are a group of monsters produced by Unk and her sons.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: They get on the bad side of it.
- Humans Are Bastards: Their general opinion.
- Making a Splash: They cause a flood.
Mni Watu
Creatures made by Unk and her sons which cause disease. They're too small for you to see, though.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: "All rational [white] people" knew that disease was caused by an imbalance of humours.
- The Plague: They can cause this if so inclined.
The original god, who brought the world into existence by dancing.
Weywot
Quaoar's son, the god of the sky. Later conquers and enslaves the Taksnote , before being killed by his own sons. Also, he can fly.
- Elemental Powers
- Evil Overlord
- Spear Counterpart: to Chehooit
Chehooit
Quaoar's daughter, the goddess of the earth.
- Distaff Counterpart:to Weywot
Tamit
Weywot's son (and killer), the god of the sun.
Moar
Chehooit's son, the god of the moon.
Chinigichnix
A prophet born in present-day Long Beach who created human beings. Not technically a god, but deserving of mention. He also has animal avengers who spy on humans.
