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To: epicure who wrote (31966)	11/26/2006 9:26:59 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

Fascinating. I particularly like this part. Lakota mythology is a living belief system, still subscribed to by both Lakota and some outsiders. Oral myths stated that it was Iktomi who would bring the webs across the continents. Today, this has interpreted to mean first the telephone network, and then the internet and world wide web. Iktomi has been considered from time immemorial to be the patron of all new technology, from his invention of language he gave to the people to today's modern inventions, such as the computer or robots. Many Lakota today consider Iktomi to be the god of the Europeans, who they claim seem to readily follow in his bizarre behavior and self entrapping tricks.