Tsé`nagahi

Also known as: Travelling Stone · Role: stone · First appears: Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10

Life events

Nayénezgani pursued Tsé`nagahi to the river and struck pieces off him.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 San Juan River)
- With: Nayénezgani
- “He chased it all over the present Navaho land, knocking pieces off it in many places as he followed, until at length he chased it into the San Juan River at Tsintáhokata, where a point of forest runs down toward the river.”
Tsé`nagahi promised to stop harming the people and help their lands, and Nayénezgani agreed to spare him.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 San Juan River)
- With: Nayénezgani
- “Then the stone spoke and said: ‘Sawé (my baby, my darling), take pity on me, and I shall no longer harm your people, but do good to them instead. I shall keep the springs in the mountains open and cause your rivers to flow; kill me and your lands will become barren.’ Nayénezgani answered: ‘If you keep this promise I shall spare you; but if you ever more do evil as you have done before, I shall seek you again, and then I shall not spare you.’”
Tsé`nagahi kept his promise and became the Tiéholtsodi of the upper world.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10)
- With: Nayénezgani
- “Tsé`nagahi has kept his promise ever since, and has become the Tiéholtsodi of the upper world.”

enemies with Nayénezgani “When the stone fell he struck another piece off with his knife. Tsé`nagahi now saw it had a powerful foe to contend against; so, instead of hurling itself at him again, it fled and Nayénezgani went in pursuit.”

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