Heyoka (Sioux): The heyoka were men who, having been honored in a dream by the vision of the Thunderbirds, had thereby contracted the obligation, on the one hand, to humble themselves, and, on the other, to dissimulate their consecration. Their case was similar, in certain respects, to that of the dervishes known by the name of the “people of blame” (malamatiyah), who sought to attract the reprobation of the profane and the hypocritical, while realizing inwardly the most perfect spiritual sincerity. For the sake of humility the heyoka condemns himself henceforth to perform virtually all actions the wrong way round, or to be a man “upside down” – for example, by pretending to shiver when it is hot, or to be stifled with heat when it is cold – and so to arouse the mockery of simple or mediocre people; nevertheless, he is considered to have received mysterious powers and may end by being deeply respected as a being apart and out of the common run, and no longer completely belonging to this world of rampant logic. [GTUFS: FSun, The Demiurge in North American Mythology]