Téelget

Role: monster · First appears: Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2

In Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2, Téelget was born headless and misshapen. The people threw the offspring into a gully, but it lived and grew into a monster who destroyed many of them.

In Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6, Nasi'zi dug tunnels beneath Téelget and gnawed away the hair near his heart. Nayénezgani shot him with an arrow of chain-lightning; Téelget tore open the eastern tunnel with one of his horns before falling dead.

Relationship record

Life events

• The people threw the misshapen offspring into a gully, but it lived and grew into Téelget.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2)
  • With: the people
  • “So they threw it away; but it lived and grew up and became the monster Téelget, who afterwards destroyed so many of the people.”
• Nasi'zi dug tunnels beneath Téelget and gnawed the hair near his heart.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6)
  • With: Nasi'zi
  • “I have dug a tunnel up to Téelget, and at the end I have bored four tunnels for you to hide in, one to the east, one to the south, one to the west, and one to the north. I have made a hole upwards from the tunnel to his heart, and I have gnawed the hair off near his heart.”
• Nayénezgani shot Téelget with a chain-lightning arrow, and Téelget fell dead after tearing up the tunnels.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6)
  • With: Nayénezgani
  • “He sped his arrow of chain-lightning and fled into the eastern tunnel. The monster rose, stuck one of his horns into the ground, and ripped the tunnel open.”

Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2

• parent: the woman who bore Téelget “Here a woman brought forth, but her offspring was not like a child; it was round, misshapen, and had no head. The people counselled, and determined that it should be thrown into a gully. So they threw it away; but it lived and grew up and became the monster Téelget, who afterwards destroyed so many of the people.”

Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6

• enemies with Nayénezgani “He sped his arrow of chain-lightning and fled into the eastern tunnel. The monster rose, stuck one of his horns into the ground, and ripped the tunnel open.”

Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7

• enemies with Nayénezgani (Nayénezgani had slain Téelget.) “When he approached his dead enemy he found that Hazaí had streaked his own face with the blood of the slain”

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