In Lakota mythology, ÃÂà Âyaà  (Rock) was the first of the powerful spirits. He existed before the beginning. He then created Maka and gave it the spirit MakÃÂá-akáà Âl (Earth spirit), the second of the spirit beings and a part of ÃÂà Âyaà Â. After creating MakÃÂá, ÃÂà Âyaà  was very weak. He created miniature versions of MakÃÂá, and her lover, father sky. Those miniatures were humans. This effort made ÃÂà Âyaà  hard and powerless. His blood became the blue waters and the sky.