The first people were not able to distinguish between the two. Gnaski enabled this by mimicking Ksa to perfection therefore, Gnaski is called Ksapela (little wisdom). Gnaski succeeds in this, mainly because he has no fear of Skan (the Judge, Activity), by sowing confusion. Unk wanted to outwit Ksa with the help of the cunning of Gnaski. Because of this, and for not taking the advice of Ksa, Unk was expelled from the circle of divine entities. Iya and Unk had an incestious relationship out of which Gnaski, the demon, was the result. In another version Iya is the son of Unk (defined as passion), who detested Ksa. Ksa invented language, stories, names and games. The Oglala of south Dakota present Iktómi as the second manifestation, or degeneration, of Ksa, which hatched from the Cosmic Egg being laid by Wak-Inyan, the primordial thunderstorm.
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So Iktómi is the imp of mischief whose delight is to make others ridiculous".
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According to author James Walker, Iktómi has his roots in Ksa, the god of wisdom: "Because Ksa had used his wisdom to cause a goddess to hide her face in shame and a god to bow his head in grief, Scan, the god of motion condemned him that he should sit at the feasts of gods no more and should sit on the world without a friend, and his wisdom should be only cunning that would entrap him in his own schemes. He is the first born son of Inyan, the Rock. The Spider, although most tales involve the trickster figure and center on morality lessons for the young, Iktómi was also the bringer of Lakota culture.