Powers, priests and secret orders across the Americas

SUMMARYPowers, priests and secret orders across the Americas (Nov 6, 2026; user drop). Dataset chronoseer/datasets/powers_record.json/csv (20 entries). SHAPE-SHIFTING, Record: Mexica nahualli (Sahagún Book 10); Maya way doubles; Makandal (1758); Taíno transformations (P792). BULLETS AND NO DEATH, Record: Hyacinthe at Croix-des-Bouquets (Mar 22, 1792) moved through the ranks with a bull's tail believed to turn bullets and grapeshot. The fighters believed death sent them home to Africa (Ginen); the insurgents won, about 1,200 of them and 100+ French dead (Schœlcher citing Madiou). Nanny of the Maroons caught British bullets (Maroon tradition; National Hero 1976). Tenskwatawa at Tippecanoe (1811). Lakota ghost shirts; at Wounded Knee (Dec 29, 1890) at least 153 Lakota were killed. Igbo Landing (1803): captives walked into the water; the tellings say they flew home. SPIRIT WAR, Record: Taki Onqoy (Andes, 1560s), the huacas possessing people to sweep out the Spanish; Popé and the Taos kiva spirits (1680), 12 years of Pueblo freedom; Romaine-la-Prophétesse (1791–92); the Speaking Cross of Chan Santa Cruz (1850), about 50 years of a free Maya state; Nat Turner's eclipse sign (1831). ORDERS AND PRIESTS, Record: behique (Ayiti), papahuaque (Mexica), Midewiwin, Abakuá, Bizango (Disputed). GOOD AND EVIL, Record: in Vodou the bokor is said to "serve with both hands" (Métraux 1959). Pattern: when the land's people rose, they rose with spiritual power at the front: prophets, oracles, shirts, tails, crosses and shape-shifters. Several of those risings won (Croix-des-Bouquets 1792, the Pueblo Revolt 1680, the Speaking Cross state). Whether the powers were physically real: OPEN, no test; the record shows they moved armies.