Category:Horned serpent
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This category refers to a different serpent spirits being found in many Native American tribes' cosmologies and represented frequently in art throughout North America. These are also known by the following terms.
- Tie-Snakes, Estakwvnayv (Muscogee)
- Tcinto såktco (Alabama)
- Uktena (Cherokee)
- Unktehi or Unktehila (Dakota)
- Unktehila or Ųȟcéǧila (Lakota)
- Misi-kinepikw (Cree)
- Msi-kinepikwa (Shawnee)
- Misi-ginebig (Oji-Cree)
- Mishi-ginebig (Ojibwe)
- Pita-skog (Abenaki)
- Sinti lapitta (Choctaw)
- Olobit (Natchez)
- Avanyu (Tewa)
These spirit being is sometimes represented with horns or antlers, and sometimes with wings, when it is associated with the Draco constellation.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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