Wohpe

In Lakota mythology, Wóȟpe (less correctly spelled "Wohpe") is a spirit of peace, the daughter of Wi and the Moon, Haŋhépi-Wi. She is the wife of the south wind. When she visited the Earth, she gave the Lakota people a pipe as a symbol of peace.{{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}} Later, Wóȟpe became conflated with White Buffalo Calf Woman.{{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}}{{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}} An alternative name for Wóȟpe is Ptehíŋčalasaŋwiŋ.

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

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