different between wakan vs orenda

wakan

Gothic

Romanization

wakan

  1. Romanization of ????????????????????

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orenda

English

Etymology

Supposedly coined in 1902 by American ethnologist John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt using a Wyandot (Iroquoian) cognate to Mohawk or??·na? (inherent power).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /????n.d?/, /o????n.d?/
  • Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

orenda (uncountable)

  1. A mystical power thought by the Iroquois to pervade all things.
    • 1920 George Willis Cooke - The Social Evolution of Religion
      In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as "a fictive force, principle, or magic power"

See also

  • mana, wakan

References

Anagrams

  • Ednora, adreno-, radeon

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