How to pronounce“inyan”in English

Inyan shriveled up and became a rock.

So Inyan, all of its powers-- remember, he's the foremost spirit-- flowed from him, or it, into water and into this plane, this disc now

And Inyan used to be number one, but now he's number four.

is just another name Inyan.

And we reunite Inyan with its blood, and we pour the water on the rocks.

But when we bring in Inyan, the hot rocks, into the lodge, and we bring in water, that's Inyan's blood.

Now, Lakota cosmology personifies Inyan and calls him a he.

And in that explosion, Inyan created a disc, a globe, a sphere, and Inyan sacrificed its own blood

But it had to create of itself, and Inyan's blood is water.

When we have a sweat lodge, so when Inyan sacrificed itself and its power, he sacrificed his own place as the foremost spirit

It still has a name, and its name is Inyan.

And when we go into a sweat lodge, you take Inyan, you take these rocks.

So I use the word, "it," or maybe just the name, Inyan, because Inyan really doesn't have a gender.