I received a huge honor recently when I was invited to my first Lakota Sundance Ceremony. With all the energetic shifts that have taken place in me since then, not only was it an amazing experience, but it was actually life-changing.
I have other comic pages in the works around my experience there, but this was the first immediate work concerning it. Especially because the song I learned is a Thank You Song, it seemed appropriate to begin with gratitude.
Here are the lyrics and English translation as best I could gather from various sources:
WOPILA SONG (Thank You Song)
Wakan Tanka Tunkasila
Great Spirit, Grandfather
Pilamaya yelo he
I thank you
Canunpa wakan cha maya ku welo he
You have given me a sacred pipe
Pilamaya ye, pilamaya yelo he
Thank you, thank you
Wicozani wa maya ku welo he
You have given me a good healing
Pilamaya ye, pilamaya yelohe
Thank you, thank you
