First Woman

Also known as: Atsé Estsán · Role: first woman · First appears: Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3

In Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3, the gods directed First Man and First Woman to live together as husband and wife. Four days after the last pair of twins was born, the gods took them to the eastern mountain and kept them there for four days. First Woman bore the hermaphrodite twins, a boy, and a girl.

In Part 4, First Woman’s remark enraged her husband, and the two quarreled; First Man ended the quarrel by jumping across the fire and sitting alone in silence for the rest of the night. In Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1, after the Kisáni moved away, First Woman and First Man, with Black Body and Blue Body, set out to build the seven sacred mountains of the present Navaho land.

Relationship record

Life events

The gods directed Atsé Hastín and Atsé Estsán to live together as husband and wife.(Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3)
- With: First Man
- “When the enclosure was finished, First Man and First Woman entered it, and the gods said to them: ‘Live together now as husband and wife.’”
The gods took Atsé Hastín and Atsé Estsán to the eastern mountain and kept them there for four days.(Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3 · 📍 the eastern mountain)
- With: First Man
- “In four days after the last pair of twins was born, the gods came again and took First Man and First Woman away to the eastern mountain where the gods dwelt, and kept them there for four days.”
First Man and his wife quarreled after she made a remark that enraged him.(Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4)
- With: First Man
- “When they were done the woman wiped her greasy hands on her dress, and made a remark which greatly enraged her husband; they had a quarrel about this, which First Man ended by jumping across the fire and remaining by himself in silence for the rest of the night.”
First Man and the others set out to build the seven sacred mountains of the present Navaho land.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1)
- With: First Man
- “After the Kisáni moved away, First Man and First Woman, Black Body and Blue Body, set out to build the seven sacred mountains of the present Navaho land.”

Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3

married with First Man “Live together now as husband and wife.”
child: the hermaphrodite twins (Origin Legend I) “At the end of four days hermaphrodite twins were born, and at the end of four days more a boy and a girl were born, who in four days grew to maturity and lived with one another as husband and wife.”
child: the boy (Origin Legend I) “At the end of four days hermaphrodite twins were born, and at the end of four days more a boy and a girl were born, who in four days grew to maturity and lived with one another as husband and wife.”
child: the girl (Origin Legend I) “At the end of four days hermaphrodite twins were born, and at the end of four days more a boy and a girl were born, who in four days grew to maturity and lived with one another as husband and wife.”

Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4

married with First Man “First Man was the chief of all these people in the fourth world, except the Kisáni. He was a great hunter, and his wife, First Woman, was very corpulent.”

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Extracted from the original text of Navaho Legends. Made with Rho MD.