# Wohpe

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In [Lakota mythology](/source/Lakota_mythology), '''Wóȟpe''' (less correctly spelled "Wohpe") is a spirit of [peace](/source/peace), the daughter of [Wi](/source/Wi_(mythology)) and the [Moon](/source/Moon), Haŋhépi-Wi. She is the wife of the south wind. When she visited the Earth, she gave the [Lakota people](/source/Lakota_people) a pipe as a symbol of peace.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Walker |first=James R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PYwV956P_UgC |title=Lakota Belief and Ritual |date=1980-01-01 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-9867-5 |pages=109–113 |language=en}}</ref> Later, Wóȟpe became conflated with [White Buffalo Calf Woman](/source/White_Buffalo_Calf_Woman).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pexa |first=Christopher J. |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/2305259 |title=Translated Nation |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=2019 |isbn=9781452960135 |language=en |access-date=2023-11-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=Jessica Dawn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRAQm175ii0C |title=The Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota through 1863 |date=2010-03-22 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5145-6 |pages=188 |language=en}}</ref> An alternative name for Wóȟpe is '''Ptehíŋčalasaŋwiŋ'''. 

As a symbol of Wophe's coming to earth she is often associated with falling stars.

==See also==
*[''Dignity'' (statue)](/source/Dignity_(statue))

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
Category:Lakota spirit beings
Category:Peace goddesses
Category:Lakota culture

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