Agnolo, Giovanni, and Taddeo Gaddi
Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus
Diocese of Galway and Kilmacduagh
Garcilasso de la Vega (the Inca)
Aloisius-Edouard-Camille Gaultier
Charles Etienne Arthur Gayarré
Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Germany
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani
Prefecture Apostolic of Ghardaia
Vicariate Apostolic of Gibraltar
Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert
Vicariate Apostolic of the Gilbert Islands
Alvarez Carillo Gil de Albornoz
Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac
Glosses, Glossaries, Glossarists
Vicariate Apostolic of Goajira
Eastern Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope
Western Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope
Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Auguste-Joseph-Alphonse Gratry
Diocese of Gravina and Montepeloso
Greek Orthodox Church in America
Johann Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Guadalaxara)
Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala
Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger
Joseph Heinrich Aloysius Gügler
Vicariate Apostolic of Gulf of St. Lawrence
Bartholomeu Lourenço de Gusmão
The principal ceremonial rite of a peculiar Indian religion with originated about 1887 with Wovoka, alias jack Wilson, an Indian of the Piute tribe in Nevada. He claimed to have obtained his revelation in a vision in which he had been taken into the spirit world and talked with God, Who had promised a speedy return to the old Indian life through the reincarnation of all the dead Indians, the buffalo and other game, upon a new earth, which was already advancing from the west and would push before it the alien whites to their own proper country beyond the ocean, while the Indian believers would be taken up, as by wings, upon the new surface, and there reunited with their old-time friends. By performance of the prescribed dance and songs the consumation would be hastened, while in the frequent hypnotic trances brought about by the efforts of the priests the more sensitive subjects were enabled to anticipate the event in visions.
The belief spread among nearly all of the tribes eastward of the Missouri, and produced much excitement for several years, until several dates of the great change had passed without realization of the prophecy, when the ferment gradually subsided. In Dakota it lead indirectly to an outbreak among the Sioux in the winter of 1890-1, notable events of which were the killing of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee. In the dance, men and women held hands, facing toward the centre, singing the ghost songs, without instrumental accompaniment, while the priests within the circle brought the more sensitive subjects into the trance condition by means of hypnotizing performances. An essential doctrine of the new religion was the brotherhood of man, and in consequence of this all acts or ceremonies of a warlike nature were prohibited.
Mooney, The Ghost Dance Religion in 14th Rept. Bur. Am. Ethn., II (Washington, 1896).
JAMES MOONEY