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1. Pesla: the Hocoka (center)
Victor Douville
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2. Pesla: The Hocoka (Center)
By
Victor Douville
© 2011 Victor Douville
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3. Pesla and the Night Sky
Pesla-Hocoka
Victor Douville 3

4. Spheres in Motion
Three way Conjunction: North Pole (Waziyata Canwakan)
Ecliptic, Celestial Equator
& core of Wanagi Tacanku-
Celestial Equator
on Winter Solstice 2012 (Mahpiya Wicahpi Iciyagle)
Wi
Pressessional Circle
Pesla Celestial Sphere
(hocoka hektakigle)
(Taku Skanskan
Autumnal Equinox Tacangleska)
(Ptanyetu)
Wi Vernal Equinox
(Wetu)
Ecliptic Pressessional Wobble
(Mahpiya Maka Iciyagle) (hocoka iglucancan)
South Pole (Itokaga Canwakan) 4

5. Precession of the Equinoxes
Deneb Pole Position Cepheus Constellation
after Thuban Wakinyan
Alderaman Pole Star
Vega in 15,000 AD Wakinyan Tacante (T-
Direction of imaginary Bird’s Heart) or Pole of
North Celestial Pole the Ecliptic
carved by the earth’s pole Little Dipper
Pole of the Ecliptic is the Thuban Pole Star in
centerpiece of the imaginary 3,000 BC will happen
circle again (26,000 AD)
Unci
Wobble vortex Maka
Big Dipper
Precessional wobble occurs Precessional Cycle is 26,920
every 72 yrs. with a 7 year Years (30 x 12 = 360 x 72)5
cycle Pole positions at tilting angles

6. Wakinyan Tacante
• One of the most profound and grandest event that
will occur is when the Wakinyan Constellation’s
circle, carved out by the northern pole, stands
upright with its heart, the pole of the
ecliptic, aligned with the earth’s northern pole
• This is when the earth’s precessional wobble will
push back the heavenly bodies on the ecliptic to a
point where *Wakinyan, the most sacred and
grandest of all creatures, stands upright and
proclaims “I am the heart of everything that is.”
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*A manifestation and messenger of the spiritual beings

7. The Wobble
• Earth wobbles on its spin
axis every 72 years
Polaris
Vega • Wobble cycle lasts for about
7 years (in 2001), it recently
completed its cycle in 2008
and its next cycle will begin
in 2073 (ending in 2080)
Cause of wobble is a drag
initiated by the pull of the
sun, moon, the earth’s bulge
and earth’s inner core
reaction
Earth’s bulge
• Wobble of the earth’s axis is
contributes to like a spinning top that
the gyration gyrates when it is impacted
Vega will be pole by resistance
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star in 15000 AD

8. Composition of Earth’s Interior
Crust Mantle
(nickel/iron)
Crust is 5 to 25
miles in depth
Inner Mantle
Atmosphere 780 miles
deep
The mantle and
Outer Mantle
inner core 1,800 miles
consists of
molten liquid Inner Core
that becomes 1,380 miles
unstable when long
the earth
Core
wobbles 8
Lithosphere (between Crust and Outer Mantle)

9. Autumnal Equinox
Vindemiatrix
Denebola
Regulus
Virgo Celestial Equator
Sextans
Spica
Crater
Corvus
Hydra 9

10. Cansasa Ipusye
Vernal Equinox
Aries Keyapiya
Pegasus
Pisces
Hehaka Wi
Ecliptic Aquarius
Cetus
Capricorn10

11. The Red Race Track
Ki Inyanka Ocanku Sa • Also Called Ki Inyanka
Auriga B Capella Ocanku Sa Constellation
• Red Circle represents a
Castor
Pullox Pleiades cave in the Black Hills
Hocoka called Wasun Niye (Wind
-Pesla Cave)
• The embryo emerging from
Betelgeuse the cave is Tokahe (first
man)
Procyon • The Red Circle can also be
a womb
Sirius Rigel • Three stars in Orion’s Belt
represents the dialects
The race track story is the time when all • The Black Hills Sits on the
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creatures ran a race to win their destiny red rim of this circle

12. Ki Inyanka Ocanku Sa
• Red Race Track
Constellation
• Made up of Auriga
Hocoka or
B, Capella, Pleiades, Rig
Pesla el, Sirius, Procyon, Pollux
and Castor
• Represents the Red Rim
that surrounds the Black
Hills and the great race
• Pesla, center of the
B.H., represents
Hocoka, the center of the
race track on earth and in
the sky 12
Image courtesy of USGS 36

13. *13 Constellations on the Ecliptic
Keyapiya (Turtle)
Hehaka (Elk)
Agleska 2
(Salamander) 11
8 Cansasa Ipusye
1 1 (Dried Willow)
Owanjila Najin (N. Star) Wicincila Sakowin
2 (7 Girls)
Wakinyan (T-Bird) 1 2 Tayamni
Capella (Bison)
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Itkob U (Toward) Initi (Sweat Lodge)
7 Auriga B
3 9
5 Pesla -Hocoka
Wicakiyuhapi (Carrier) Mato Tipila (Bear’s (Center)
Lodge) Wasun Niye
Oceti Sakowin (7 Fires)`
Cansasa Ipusye (Wind Cave) Nape (Hand)
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6 Oceti (Fireplace)
Anpo
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Ki Inyanka Ocanku
*Plus 2 Amulet & 3 Wicahpi (Race Track)
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Circumpolar Stars
and Constellations

14. Lakota Wicahpi Wowapi (Star Chart)
Pte Tali Yapa (Buffalo Gap)
(Capella) or Unpapa Peak
Wanagi Tacanku Auriga B
Wicincala Sakowin (Pleiades)
(Milky Way)
Castor Pesla (bald) or Triangulum
Hocoka (center)
Pullox
Mato Tipila Pte Oyate Aries
(Gemini)
Cansasa Ipusye
Procyon Tayamni - 3 (Triangulum/Aries)
parts of a
bison Pa (head of Tayamni)
Ki Inyanka Ocanku Sa
(Red Race Track) Nape
Rigel & Betelgeuse-Tucuhu (ribs of
Sirius-Sinte (Tail of Tayamni) Tayamni)
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Orion’s Belt-Cankahu (Backbone of Tayamni)

15. Above and Below Connection
Star Gate Wanagi
Tacanku
Ki Inyanka Ocanku Sa
Wasun Niye Cansasa Ipusye
(Dried Willow)
Hocoka
Wind
Cave Devils Tower
Buffalo Gap Harney Reynolds Prairie
Red Race Track Peak
Slate Prairie
Gillette Prairie Pesla 15
Camps prepare to move to Harney Peak at spring

16. Cansasa Ipusye
• When the sun enters Dried
Willow Constellation, it is
Vernal Equinox or spring
time
Cangleska
(hoop) or
• The people then harvest the
a cave
Hocoka (center) red willow by stripping its
in the sky inner bark and drying the
Pesla (bald bark for tobacco mix to be
spot) on earth Guide
Wasun used for up the coming
post
Wiconiye spring pipe ceremony
(Wind Cave)
• The people have a month to
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make the journey to the
place that makes owl sounds
-
(Hinhan Kaga) for the tribal
spring ceremony
Inyan Kaga Guide post for the
Pesla, the center (Creation Rock) great race
of the BH Race a guide post for 16
Track the great race

17. Wicincala Sakowin
• When the sun enters the 7
Little Girls Constellation, it is
time for the great spring ritual
• At this time, people gather at
the highest peak in the Black
Black Hills near the 7 needles
hill (Hinhan Kaga) to welcome
back all thunder in peace
• This is the favorite place
where the thunder beings
display their awesome power
-
in order that all life awakens to
renew their energy and grow
-
• The buffalo contribute to this
awesome sound by produc-
ing thunder from their hoofs
as they thunder out of Buffalo
Gap to the plains 17
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18. Pesla-Hocoka
• When the sun intersects the
center of the great sky
hoop, then it is the time for
addressing all of Unci Maka’s
(grandmother earth’s) life
forms
• At this time, the people
assemble at Pesla (bald
spot) the center of He Sapa
race track or Ki Inyanka
Ocanku to welcome back all
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life in peace
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• This renewal ceremony binds
all life forms together in a
state of peaceful and tranquil
relationship
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19. Matotipila
• When the sun enters Bear’s
Lodge, it is summer solstice
and the time for the great
tribal sun dance
• At this time, the sun seems
to stand still for four days
when all the rays of the sun
focus on the earth and the
beam of the sun empowers
the sun dancers with all of
the wisdom of the sun and
-
spiritual powers
• This concludes the great
-
tribal ceremonies and allows
free secular time for the
people to enjoy the summer
and prepare to the next two
hard seasons that follow 19 19

20. He Sapa: the Heart
of Everything
• Pesla can be seen from
satellite as a bald area
• Tayamni or Agleska
(salamander) image can
be seen from a satellite
• Keya (turtle) can also be
seen
• All of these images can
be seen in the sky as
He Sapa is shaped like
constellations
a heart • The Black Hills is shaped
like a heart, bison or 20
Courtesy of Jim Sanovia
human

21. Pesla, Keya and Agleska Images
See
slide
Hocoka (Center) 22 for
these
images
Skull of a bear or
human Agleska (Salamander)
Keya (Turtle)
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Map Courtesy of Jim Sanovia

22. • At the moment of conception a soul is
Keya and Agleska sent out of the core of the Milky Way
and enters the embryo via a hole in
Wanagi Tacanku the bowl of the Dipper giving essence
and life to the baby; In addition, the
Salamander (Agleska) Keya and Agleska Constellations
prepare to empower the babies
Constellation • These images are made into amulets
where the dried umbilical cords of the
new born babies are placed within
• Long life, quick injury recovery, agility
are the virtues of the Agleska and long
life, hard to kill and perseverance are
the virtues of the Keya
• Both pass through the Milky Way on
their way to the babies and visit their
kinfolk for empowerment
• Soul loss occurs when the umbilical
Turtle(Keya) cord is cut so it is imperative that a
Constellation connection be made in the heavens to
ensure the safety of the baby on earth
Galactic • When a person passes away, the soul
Core of such a person returns to the galact-
tic core where it came from, provid-
vided they live a successful life 22

23. Pesla: the Hocoka (center)
Photograph courtesy of Victor Douville
• The center of the hoop of the universe, the center of Lakota
world, the center of He Sapa and the center of the cangleska
(the hoop or race track) surrounding He Sapa
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• This is the heart of everything that is

24. Rock Circle and Outcroppings
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Photographs courtesy of Victor Douville

25. He Sapa: Heart of Everything That is
• Pesla can be seen as a bald
spot in the center of the B.H.
• Two images of the salaman-
der and turtle can be seen
just below Pesla
• He Sapa looks like a human
or buffalo heart
• It is called the heart of every-
thing that is
• It is shaped like a buffalo’s
head
• It is called the Black Hills
because from a distance the
pine trees look black 25

26. Summary and Reflections
Precession of the Equinox
The Lakota regard the He Sapa as hollow-
ed grounds and revere it because it is the Wakinyan
spiritual center of the Lakota world. This is
where ancestors of the Lakota emerged
from Wasun Wiconiye to populate the land, this
is where the heavens reflect their image on Wakinyan
special landforms that compelled the Lakota to Tacante
perform ceremonies to maintain the spiritual (heart)
connection to the powers above so that the
people may live and this is where the Lakota
can find peace, tranquility and sanct-uary.
Moreover, the Lakota called the He Sapa
Wizipan (suitcase) where food and other items VIEW OF THE BLACK HILLS 700 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH
COURTESY OF US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, EROS DATA CENTER, SIOUX
FALLS, SD.
Unci Maka
can be stored. It is truly the heart of everything
that is. 26

27. Hecegla
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