ABSTRACT

The Sacred Other, wako'da, has no sexual gender identity. The most important manifestation of wako'da was a duality of reciprocal completion, the Sacred Above and the Sacred Below, as male and female, as sky and earth. This duality is reciprocal both being necessary for a sense of wholeness and completeness. Indian ancestors had a relationship with wako'da as Creator, the fructifying force of the cosmos, much like the African case, that was healthy and responsible long before they knew of Jesus Christ. This relationship began with the recognition of the Sacred Other as the Creator, long predating the coming of the missionaries. This chapter focuses on institutional frameworks starting with Peter Whybrow's recently penetrating work on the 'migrant' nature and scope of his adopted country, the United States of America, alluding, in the course of such, to De Toqueville's masterwork, Democracy in America.