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Wisakedjak (''Wìsakedjàk'' in Algonquin, ''Wīhsakecāhkw'' in Cree and ''Wiisagejaak'' in Oji-cree) is the Crane ''Manitou'' found in northern Algonquian and Dene storytelling, similar to the trickster god ''Nanabozho'' in Ojibwa ''aadizookaanan'' (sacred stories) and ''Inktonme'' in Assiniboine myth. He is generally portrayed as being responsible for a great flood which destroyed the world originally made by the Creator, as well as the one who created the current world with magic, either on his own or with powers given to him by the Creator for that specific purpose. His name is subject to many variant forms, including Weesack-kachack, Wisagatcak, Wis-kay-tchach, Wissaketchak, Woesack-ootchacht, Vasaagihdzak, and undoubtedly others. It was sometimes Anglicized as whiskey jack, which became an alternate name for the gray jay. ==In fiction== Wisakedjak is a character in the book ''American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman, where he is frequently referred to as "Whiskey Jack" as a corruption of the name. In the book, he appears as a native old man, who lives in a mobile home, somewhere near a Lakota reservation in the badlands with Johnney Appleseed.〔()〕 The character also appears in ''Kiss of the Fur Queen'' by Tomson Highway and ''The Onion Girl'' by Charles de Lint, and in "The Wolf at the End of the World" by "Douglas Smith" (where his name is spelled Wisakejack). Elijah Weesageechak/''()'' is a character in the book ''Three Day Road'' by Joseph Boyden, where he has been nicknamed "Whiskeyjack" by his fellow company-mates as the Anglicized version of his name. Whiskeyjack is a character in Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series ''The Malazan Book of the Fallen''. He is the putative leader (his rank goes up and down) of the ''Bridgeburners'', an elite unit of soldiers in the Malazan Empire. In the 1991 movie ''Clearcut'', Wiisagejaak is referred to as the Deceiver by a First Nations elder named Wilf, portrayed by Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wisakedjak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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