:: Wakonda ::
:: The Blackbird Family ::
An invisible and continuous life
permeates all things, seen and unseen.

This life manifests itself in two ways.

First, by causing to move:
All motion, all actions of mind or body, are
because of this invisible life;

Second, by causing permanency
of structure and form, as in the rock, the
physical features of the landscape,
mountains, plains, streams, rivers, lakes,
the animals and man.

This invisible life
is similar to the will power
of which man is conscious
within himself-
a power by which
things are brought to pass.

Through this mysterious life and power All
things are related to one another and to
man,
the seen to the unseen,
the dead to the living,
a fragment of anything
to its entirety.

This invisible life and power
is called Wakon'da.