Navaho Legends — Chronicle
Ordered by section. These legends keep no calendar: the text gives no year for any event, so none is dated — no anchor, no chronology; a date is never inferred. Events are listed in the order of the text, and time expressions are copied onto the events as written. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.
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379 events · no calendar year read from the text
Undated
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 1
You pay no attention to my words. Everywhere you disobey me; you must go to some other place. Not upon this earth shall you remain.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 1
Locust White Locust
They sent out two couriers, a Locust and a White Locust, to the east, to explore the land and see if there were in it any people like themselves.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 1 · At the end of two days
Locust White Locust
At the end of two days the couriers returned, and said that in one day's travel they had reached the edge of the world--the top of a great cliff that arose from an abyss whose bottom they could not see; but that they found in all their journey no people, no animals of any kind, no trees, no grass, no sage-brush, no mountains, nothing but bare, level ground.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 2 · on the twenty-fourth night
the Swallow chief the wife of the Swallow chief
on the twenty-fourth night one of the strangers made too free with the wife of the Swallow chief, and next morning, when the latter found out what had happened, he said to the strangers: "We have treated you as friends, and thus you return our kindness. We doubt not that for such crimes you were driven from the lower world, and now you must leave this.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3
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."
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3 · At the end of four days
the hermaphrodite twins (Origin Legend I)
At the end of four days hermaphrodite twins were born
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 3 · at the end of four days more
the boy (Origin Legend I) the girl (Origin Legend I)
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 3 · 📍 [[the eastern mountain]] · In four days after the last pair of twins was born
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.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4
These descendants of First Man and First Woman made a great farm. They built a dam and dug a wide irrigating ditch.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4
the gods
They showed the people how the masks were made and fitted, how the eye-holes were cut, how the motions of the deer were to be imitated, and explained to them all the other mysteries of the deer-hunt.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4 · Next day
the hunters
Next day hunters went out and several deer were killed; from these more masks were made, and with these masks more men went out to hunt; after that time the camp had abundance of meat.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4
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.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4 · Next morning
Next morning First Man went out early and called aloud to the people: "Come hither, all ye men," he said; "I wish to speak to you, but let all the women stay behind; I do not wish to see them." Soon all the males gathered, and he told them what his wife had said the night before. "They believe," he said, "that they can live without us. Let us see if they can hunt game and till the fields without our help. Let us see what sort of a living they can make by themselves. Let us leave them and persuade the Kisáni to come with us.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4
He sent for the hermaphrodites. They came, covered with meal, for they had been grinding corn. "What have you that you have made yourselves?" he asked. "We have each two mealing-stones, and we have cups and bowls and baskets and many other things," they answered. "Then take these all along with you," he ordered, "and join us to cross the stream."
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4
Then all the men and the hermaphrodites assembled at the river and crossed to the north side on the raft, and they took over with them their stone axes and farm implements and everything they had made.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 4
the Kisáni
When they had all crossed they sent the raft down to the Kisáni for them to cross. The latter came over,--six gentes of them,--but they took their women with them.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 5
the mother (Origin Legend I) her husband (Origin Legend I)
The mother succeeded in reaching the opposite bank and finding her husband.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 5
the two girls (Origin Legend I) Tiéholtsodi
The daughters were seized by Tiéholtsodi, the water monster, and dragged down under the water.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 5
Tiéholtsodi the two girls (Origin Legend I) the two children of Tiéholtsodi
at last they went into the north room, and there they beheld the water monster Tiéholtsodi, with the two girls he had stolen and two children of his own.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 5
the two girls (Origin Legend I) Tiéholtsodi
The man and the woman demanded the children, and as he said nothing in reply they took them and walked away.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 5
Coyote the two children of Tiéholtsodi
But as they went out Coyote, unperceived by all, took the two children of Tiéholtsodi and carried them off under his robe.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
The elder took out seven bags from under his robe and opened them. Each contained a small quantity of earth. He told the people that in these bags he had earth from the seven sacred mountains.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
the old man (Origin Legend I) the young man (Origin Legend I)
“I cannot, but my son may be able to help you,” said the old man.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
the young man (Origin Legend I)
A moment later all the reeds joined together and became one reed of great size, with a hole in its eastern side. He bade them enter the hollow of the reed through this hole.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
When he came back he had this story to tell: He had gotten through to the upper world, and came out on a little island in the centre of a lake.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
the Locust the black Grebe the yellow Grebe
We give you a challenge. If you can do as we do, we shall give you one half of the world; if you cannot, you must die.
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
the Locust the blue Grebe the shining Grebe
Again he passed the arrow through his heart and the Grebes departed, leaving the land to the locust.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1
He picked up a stone, and saying, "If it sinks we perish; if it floats we live," he threw it into the water. It sank, of course, and all were angry with him and reviled him
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1 · The day they arrived at the shore
Puma
Puma took a bride from among the new people.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1 · On the fourth day of the emergence
First Man, who rose to speak, said, pointing to Coyote: "Yonder is a rascal, and there is something wrong about him. He never takes off his robe, even when he lies down. I have watched him for a long time, and have suspected that he carries some stolen property under his robe. Let us search him." They tore the robe from Coyote's shoulders
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1 · On the fourth day of the emergence
They tore the robe from Coyote's shoulders, and two strange little objects dropped out that looked something like buffalo calves, but were spotted all over in various colors; they were the young of Tiéholtsodi. At once the people threw them into the hole through which the waters were pouring; in an instant the waters subsided, and rushed away with a deafening noise to the lower world.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1 · On the fifth night
one of the twin hermaphrodites Coyote
On the fifth night one of the twin hermaphrodites ceased to breathe. They left her alone all that night, and, when morning came, Coyote proposed to lay her at rest among the rocks.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1 · in four days
the two men
They returned to their people and related what they had seen; but in four days both these men died
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1
the young men the woman who owned the ear (Origin Legend II) Coyote
The young men agreed to this bargain, and the woman who owned the ear broke it in the middle and laid the pieces down for the others to choose. The young men looked at the pieces, and were considering which they would take, when Coyote, getting impatient, picked up the tip end of the ear and made off with it.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1
the Pueblos
But the Pueblos had become alarmed at the threats and angry language of their neighbors and moved away from them
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 1 · After the Kisáni moved away
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 II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2
the people Téelget
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 II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2 · 📍 [[Tse`taiská]] · Next day
the people Tse`na'hale
They took it to an alkali bed close by and cast it away there. But it lived and grew and became the terrible Tse`na'hale, of whom I shall have much to tell later.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2 · 📍 [[Tse`bináhotyel]] · The next night
[[the woman who bore Tsetahotsiltáli]] [[Tsetahotsiltáli]]
The next night, travelling still to the east, they camped at Tse`bináhotyel, a broad high cliff like a wall, and here a woman bore another strange creature.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2 · 📍 [[Tse`bináhotyel]] · The next night
the people [[Tsetahotsiltáli]]
This object was deposited in the cliff, in a hole which was afterwards sealed up with a stone. They left it there to die, but it grew up and became the destroyer Tse
tahotsiltáli, of whom we shall tell hereafter.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 3 · All night
Hastséhogan the son of Hastséhogan
All night the gods danced and sang and performed their mystic rites for the purpose of giving to the son of Hastséhogan powers, as a gambler, equal to those of Nohoílpi.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 3 · When the morning came
Hastséhogan the son of Hastséhogan
When the morning came they washed the young neophyte all over, dried him with meal, dressed him in clothes exactly like those the gambler wore, and in every way made him look as much like the gambler as possible
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 4
Nohoílpi the son of Hastséhogan
The great gambler accepted the wager, and the four persons, two women and two mock-women, were placed sitting in a row near the wall. First they played the game of thirteen chips. The Bat assisted, as he had promised the son of Hastséhogan and the latter soon won the game, and with it the wives of Nohoílpi.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 4
Nohoílpi the son of Hastséhogan
The latter ran to pick up the ring, lest Nohoílpi in doing so might hurt the snake inside; but the gambler was so angry that he threw his stick away and gave up the game, hoping to do better in the next contest, which was that of pushing down trees.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5
Nohoílpi the son of Hastséhogan
Then followed a variety of games, on which Nohoílpi staked his wealth in shells and precious stones, his houses, and many of his slaves, and lost all.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5
Nohoílpi the son of Hastséhogan
Nohoílpi bet on this game the last of his slaves and his own person. The gambler struck his ball a heavy blow, but it did not reach the line; the stranger gave his but a light tap, and the bird within it flew with it far beyond the line, whereat the released captives jumped over the line and joined their people.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5
the son of Hastséhogan Hastséyalti
He gave the beads and shells to Hastséyalti, that they might be distributed among the gods; the two great shells were given to the Sun.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5
the son of Hastséhogan Tsóhanoai
He gave the beads and shells to Hastséyalti, that they might be distributed among the gods; the two great shells were given to the Sun.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5
Nohoílpi the son of Hastséhogan
You have bet yourself and have lost; you are now my slave and must do my bidding. You are not a god, for my power has prevailed against yours.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5
So he made for the gambler pets or domestic animals of new kinds, different to those which he had in the Chaco valley; he made for him sheep, asses, horses, swine, goats, and fowls. He also gave him bayeta, and other cloths of bright colors, more beautiful than those woven by his slaves at Kintyél. He made, too, a new people, the Mexicans, for the gambler to rule over, and then he sent him back to this world again, but he descended far to the south of his former abode, and reached the earth in old Mexico.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5 · 📍 [[Mexico]] · after a while
Nohoílpi's people increased greatly in Mexico, and after a while they began to move towards the north, and build towns along the Rio Grande. Nohoílpi came with them until they arrived at a place north of Santa Fé. There they ceased building, and he returned to old Mexico, where he still lives, and where he is now the Nakaí Digíni, or God of the Mexicans.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5 · 📍 [[Tse`gíhi]]
The young stranger went back to Tse`gíhi, the home of the yéi.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5 · 📍 [[To`i'ndotsos]]
From Kintyél they moved to To`i'ndotsos, and here Mai, the Coyote, married a Navaho woman.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5 · two days
Coyote was delighted; he had never had a nicer meal, and when he was leaving he invited his host to return the visit in two days. At the appointed time Porcupine presented himself at the hut of Coyote. The latter greeted his guest, bade him be seated, and rushed out of the house. In a few minutes he returned with a piece of bark. With this he scratched his nose, as he had seen Porcupine doing, and allowed the blood to flow. He placed the bloody bark over the fire, where in a moment it burst into flames and was soon reduced to ashes.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5 · two days
After waiting a while, he raked the ashes and found nothing but two pieces of charred wood where he had placed the arrow-heads. This time he gave no evidence of his disappointment, but sat and talked with his guest just as if nothing had happened, until Wolf, seeing no sign of dinner and becoming very hungry, got up and went home.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 6
I am the God of Tsisnadzi'ni Mountain. I have no need to hunt. All I have to do is to will the death of an animal and it dies.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 6 · At nightfall
Go, one of you maidens, back to the lodge to serve him. Hearing these words, the younger of the two young women returned to the lodge. Her clothing was ornamented with many pendants of bone and hoof that rattled with every movement she made, and for this reason Coyote named her Tsiké Nazi'li, or Young Woman Who Rattles.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 6
Everywhere the fagot touched it set fire to the grass, and raised a long line of flame and smoke which drove the antelope up to where the hunters were concealed.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 6 · Next morning
Coyote, in the mean time, had gone to seek the bad neighbors.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 6
But when he begged them to pull out his eyes for the fifth time, they went to a distance and held a council among themselves. When they returned they pulled his eyes out once more; but this time they took pains to pull out the strings of the eyes (optic nerves) at the same time; these they tied together, and, when the eyes were again flung up in the tree, they caught on one of the branches and there they stayed.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 7 · during the day
He has been playing with the Tsi'di Sási and has lost his eyes.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 7
Coyote followed the rattling sound, and was thus led on to the brink of a deep canyon. Here the hawk shook the dress beyond the edge of the precipice. Coyote jumped toward where he heard the sound, fell to the bottom of the canyon, and was dashed to pieces.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 7 · after a while
But for all this he did not die. He did not, like other beings, keep his vital principle in his chest, where it might easily be destroyed; he kept it in the tip of his nose and in the end of his tail, where no one would expect to find it; so after a while he came to life again
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 7 · 📍 [[the camp of the birds]]
They told him she was gone away, and ordered him angrily to leave, telling him they knew who he was, and that he was a worthless fellow.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 7
Coyote said to the Brown Giant, "Yélapahi, I want to be your servant; I can be of great help to you. The reason that you often fail to catch your enemies is that you cannot run fast enough. I can run fast and jump far; I can jump over four bushes at one bound. I can run after your enemies and help you to catch them." "My cousin," responded Brown Giant, "you can do me service if you will."
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 7
She had been sought in marriage by the Sun and by many potent gods, but she had refused them all because they could not comply with certain conditions which she imposed op all suitors.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 7
When he asked her the fourth time she answered: "In the first place, I will not marry any one who has not killed one of the anáye."
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
Coyote scalped his victim, and tied the scalp to the top of a branch which he broke from a cedar-tree; as further evidence of his victory, he took the quiver and weapons of the slain
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8 · 📍 [[the lodge]]
When he reached the lodge he said to the maiden: "Here is the scalp and here are the weapons of one of the anáye. Now you must marry me." "No," said the maiden, "not yet; I have not told you all that one must do in order to win me.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
The maiden took him a little distance from the lodge, laid him on the ground, beat him with a great club until she thought she had smashed every bone in his body, and left him for dead.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
She made no reply, but took him off farther than she had taken him before, and pounded him to pieces with a club.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
Again she led him forth, but took him still farther away from the lodge than she had taken him before, and with a heavy club pounded him into a shapeless mass, until she thought he must certainly be dead.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
The fourth time she led him farther away than ever. She not only mashed him to pieces, but she mixed the pieces with earth, ground the mixture, like corn, between two stones, until it was ground to a fine powder, and scattered this powder far and wide.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
She had just begun to entertain hopes that she had seen the last of her unwelcome suitor when again he entered the door. Now, at last, she could not refuse him. He had fulfilled all her conditions, and she consented to become his wife.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8 · 📍 [[the lodge]] · At sunset
the eldest brother (Origin Legend II) Tsiké Sas Nátlehi Coyote
At length one of the brothers turned to his sister and said: "What is the cause of this odor? It is not in the wood. It is not in the water. Whence comes it?" She was silent. He repeated the question three times, yet she made no answer. But when the question had been asked for the fourth time, Coyote jumped out of his hiding-place into the middle of the lodge and cried: "It is I, my brothers-in-law!" "Run out there!" the brothers commanded, and turning to their sister they said: "Run out you with him!"
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
They both departed from the lodge. As Coyote went out he took a brand from the fire, and with this he lighted a new fire. Then he broke boughs from the neighboring trees and built a shelter for himself and his wife to live in. When this was completed she went back to the lodge of her brothers, took out her pots, skins, four awls, baskets, and all her property, and carried them to her new home.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 9
one of the elder brothers (Origin Legend II) Léyaneyani
One of the elder brothers said to the youngest: "Go out to-night and watch the couple, and see what sort of a man this is that we have for a brother-in-law.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 9
The myth then relates four deaths and resurrections of the woman, similar to those of the Coyote, but it does not state how or where she preserved her vital principle.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 9 · Next morning
For the fourth time he pleaded with them; but now the youngest brother took his part, and suggested that Coyote might assist in driving game towards them. So, after some deliberation, they consented to take Coyote along.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 9
Coyote one of the elder brothers (Origin Legend II)
Each time he cried, the horn grew harder and harder, and the knife slipped as it cut, hacking but not severing the horn.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 9
Coyote one of the elder brothers (Origin Legend II) Léyaneyani
At once the meat expanded and became again a heap of formidable size, such that he could not bind it up again or carry it;
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 9
When he asked the birds for the fourth time to roll a stone for him they became angry and hurled it with such force that Coyote lost his footing, and he and the stone rolled over one another to the bottom of the slope, and he screamed and yelped all the way down.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 10
Then she faced in turn the south, the west, and the north, moving sunwise. When this was done she pulled out her right eye-tooth, broke a large piece from one of her four bone awls and inserted it in the place of the tooth, making a great tusk where the little tooth had once been. As she did this she said aloud: "He who shall hereafter dream of losing a right eye-tooth shall lose a brother." After this she opened her mouth to the four points of the compass in the order in which she had faced them before, tore out her left eye-tooth and inserted in its place the pointed end of another awl. As she made this tusk she said: "He who dreams of losing his left eye-tooth shall lose a sister."
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 10
When he went back he saw her make, as she had done before, two tusks in her lower jaw. When she had made that on the right she said: "He who dreams of losing this tooth (right lower canine) shall lose a child;" and when she made that on the left she said: "He who dreams of losing this tooth (left lower canine) shall lose a parent."
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · When she first began to pull out her teeth
When she first began to pull out her teeth, hair began to grow on her hands; as she went on with her mystic work the hair spread up her arms and her legs, leaving only her breasts bare.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · After a while
After a while her ears began to wag, her snout grew long, her teeth were heard to gnash, her nails turned into claws.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · 📍 [[the fatal canyon]] · all day
She had been in the fatal canyon all day, fighting the slayers of Coyote, and she had been wounded in many places.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · At intervals
At intervals she would, by means of her magic, draw arrow-heads out of her body and heal the wounds.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · 📍 [[the fatal canyon]] · at the end of the fourth day
Thus she continued to do for four days and four nights; but at the end of the fourth day she had conquered all her enemies; she had slain many, and those she had not killed she had dispersed.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · at the end of that time
They left the youngest brother at home, and the remaining ten divided themselves into four different parties; one of which travelled to the east, another to the south, another to the west, and another to the north.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · 📍 [[the lodge]] · When they were gone
They gave him two monitors, Ni'ltsi, the Wind, at his right ear, to warn him by day of the approach of danger; and Tsalyél, darkness, at his left ear, to warn him by night.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · When morning came
When morning came and the bear-woman went forth she discovered that her brothers had departed. She poured water on the ground (hali'z) to see which way they had gone.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11
The water flowed to the east; she rushed on in that direction and soon overtook three of the fugitives, whom she succeeded in killing. Then she went back to her hut to see what had become of her other brothers. Again she poured water on the level ground and it flowed off to the south; she followed in that direction and soon overtook three others, whom she likewise slew. Returning to the lodge she again performed her divination by means of water. This time she was directed to the west, and, going that way, she overtook and killed three more of the men.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11
Again she sought the old camp and poured on the ground water, which flowed to the north; going on in this direction she encountered but one man, and him she slew.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · 📍 [[the lodge]]
Tsiké Sas Nátlehi Léyaneyani Ni'ltsi
Here she found the earth was soft as if recently disturbed, and she dug rapidly downward with her paws. She soon came to the stones, and, removing these, saw her last remaining brother hidden beneath them. "I greet you, my younger brother! Come up, I want to see you," she said in a coaxing voice. Then she held out one finger to him and said: "Grasp my finger and I will help you up." But Wind told him not to grasp her finger; that if he did she would throw him upwards, that he would fall half dead at her feet and be at her mercy.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12 · late in the afternoon
Soon he observed her snout growing longer and approaching his head, and he noticed that her ears were wagging.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12
He drew forth his chain-lightning arrow, shot it into the weeds, and saw a bright stream of blood spurting up. At the same instant the bear-woman fell with the blood streaming from her side.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12
The young man did as he was bidden, when instantly the blood coagulated and ceased to flow.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12 · 📍 [[Black Mountain (Dsillizi'n)]]
He threw the head at the foot of a piñon-tree and it changed into a bear, which started at once to walk off.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12
He threw the nipples up into a piñon-tree, heretofore fruitless, and they became edible pine nuts.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12
They led him to the east, to the south, to the west, and to the north, where the corpses of his brothers lay, and these they restored to life for him.
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12
They went back to the place where the brothers had dwelt before and built a new house; but they did not return to the old home
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12 · 📍 [[Atáhyitsoi (Big Point on the Edge)]]
The holy ones then gave to the young hero the name of Léyaneyani, or Reared Under the Ground, because they had hidden him in the earth when his brethren fled from the wrath of his sister.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 1 · 📍 [[Tse`lakaíia (White Standing Rock)]] · a few days after they arrived
the old man (Origin Legend III) the old woman (Origin Legend III) the young man (Origin Legend III) the young woman (Origin Legend III)
where, a few days after they arrived, they found on the ground a small turquoise image of a woman; this they preserved.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 1 · Two days after the finding of the image
the old man (Origin Legend III) the old woman (Origin Legend III) the young man (Origin Legend III) the young woman (Origin Legend III)
He told the four people to come up to the top of Tsolíhi after twelve nights had passed, bringing with them the turquoise image they had found, and at once he departed.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 1 · 📍 [[Tsolíhi]] · When they raised it for the fourth time
When they raised it for the fourth time, the images and the ears of corn were found changed to living beings in human form: the turquoise image had become Estsánatlehi, the Woman Who Changes (or rejuvenates herself); the white shell image had become Yolkaí Estsán, the White Shell Woman;
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 1 · 📍 [[Tsolíhi]] · After the ceremony
After the ceremony, White Body took Pollen Boy, Grasshopper Girl, White Corn Boy, and Yellow Corn Girl with him into Tsolíhi; the rest of the assembly departed, and the two divine sisters, Estsánatlehi and Yolkaí Estsán, were left on the mountain alone.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 1 · 📍 [[Tsolíhi]] · Four days after this conversation
Four days after this conversation Yolkaí Estsán said: "Elder Sister, I feel something strange moving within me; what can it be?" and Estsánatlehi answered: "It is a child. It was for this that you lay under the waterfall. I feel, too, the motions of a child within me. It was for this that I let the sun shine upon me."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 1 · In four days more
Estsánatlehi's child was born first.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · at the end of four days
When the gods (yéi) returned at the end of four days, the boys had grown to be the size of ordinary boys of twelve years of age.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Hastséyalti
Before the long race was half done the boys, who ran fast, began to flag, and the gods, who were still fresh, got behind them and scourged the lads with twigs of mountain mahogany. Hastséyalti won the race, and the boys came home rubbing their sore backs.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · during the next four days
So for four days they ran hard, many times daily around the neighboring mountain, and when the gods came back again the youths had grown to the full stature of manhood.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · in the second contest
In the second contest the gods began to flag and fall behind when half way round the mountain, where the others had fallen behind in the first race, and here the boys got behind their elders and scourged the latter to increase their speed. The elder of the boys won this race
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · The night after the race
“Who are our fathers?” again demanded the boys, and the women answered: “The round cactus and the sitting cactus are your fathers.”
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · Next day
Notwithstanding these warnings the boys went to the east the first day, and when they had travelled a good distance they saw an animal with brownish hair and a sharp nose.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · On the following day
On the following day, although again strictly warned not to go far from the lodge, the boys wandered far to the south, and there they saw a great black bird seated on a tree. They aimed their arrows at it; but just as they were about to shoot the bird rose and flew away.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · On the third day
The only living thing they saw was a great dark bird with a red skinny head that had no feathers on it. This bird they tried to shoot also; but before they could do so it spread its wings and flew a long way off.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · On the fourth day
When they had travelled a long way in that direction, they saw a bird of black plumage perched on a tree on the edge of a canyon. It was talking to itself, saying "a
ai`." They aimed at it, but before they could let fly their arrows it spread its wings and tail and disappeared down the canyon.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · The next morning
She ran quickly back and gave the warning, and the women hid the boys under bundles and sticks.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2 · The next morning
He compared the two sets of tracks, seemed to be satisfied, and went away.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 3
Estsánatlehi took four colored hoops, and threw one toward each of the cardinal points,--a white one to the east, a blue one to the south, a yellow one to the west, and a black one to the north. At once a great gale arose, blowing so fiercely in all directions from the hogán that none of the enemies could advance against it.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 3 · Next morning
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Yolkaí Estsán Estsánatlehi
Next morning the boys got up before daybreak and stole away. Soon the women missed them, but could not trace them in the dark. When it was light enough to examine the ground the women went out to look for fresh tracks. They found four footprints of each of the boys, pointing in the direction of the mountain of Dsilnáotil, but more than four tracks they could not find. They came to the conclusion that the boys had taken a holy trail, so they gave up further search and returned to the lodge.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 3
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Spider Woman Tsóhanoai
But I shall give you something to subdue your enemies and preserve your lives." She gave them a charm called nayéatsos, or feather of the alien gods, which consisted of a hoop with two life-feathers (feathers plucked from a living eagle) attached, and another life-feather, hyiná biltsós, to preserve their existence. She taught them also this magic formula, which, if repeated to their enemies, would subdue their anger:
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 3
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni the rocks (Origin Legend III)
Then they repeated the words the Spider Woman had taught them, and the rocks said: "Pass on to the house of your father." When next they ventured to step into the chasm the rocks did not close, and they passed safely on.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 3
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni the reeds (Origin Legend III)
Then the reeds spoke to them, as the rocks had done; they answered and repeated the sacred words. "Pass on to the house of your father," said the reeds, and the boys passed on in safety.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 3
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni the cane cactuses (Origin Legend III)
But the boys deceived them as they had deceived the reeds, and subdued them as they had subdued the reeds, and passed on in safety.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 3
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni the sands (Origin Legend III)
Then the elder of the boys repeated his sacred formula; the sands subsided, saying: "Pass on to the house of your father," and the boys continued on their journey over the desert of sands.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4 · Soon after this adventure
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Spider Woman
but the elder boy repeated the sacred words the Spider Woman had taught him, and when he came to the last words, "Be still," the bears crouched down again and lay still.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4
As the boys advanced, all these guardians acted as if they would destroy them; but all were appeased with the words of prayer.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4
The young men gazed at them more closely, and then, without speaking, they rose, wrapped the strangers in four coverings of the sky, and laid them on a shelf.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4 · soon after it shook the fourth time
soon after it shook the fourth time, Tsóhanoai, the bearer of the sun, entered his house. He took the sun off his back and hung it up on a peg on the west wall of the room
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4 · to-day
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
He seized them, and threw them first upon great, sharp spikes of white shell that stood in the east; but they bounded back, unhurt, from these spikes
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Ni'ltsi
Wind then whispered into the ears of the boys the secret of the hole and said: "Do not hide in the hole until you have answered the questions of your father."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4 · After a while
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
He greeted them in a friendly way and said: "Yes, these are my children,"
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
The young women went to the strangers, pulled their hair out long, and moulded their faces and forms so that they looked just like their brethren.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4 · As they were about to enter the door
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Ni'ltsi
"Take each of you one of these," said Wind, "and put it in your mouth, but do not swallow it. There is one more trial for you,--a trial by smoking."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 4
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
They smoked it, and passed it from one to another till it was finished. They said it tasted sweet, but it did them no harm.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
He took from pegs where they hung around the room and gave to each a hat, a shirt, leggings, moccasins, all made of pes (iron or knives), a chain-lightning arrow, a sheet-lightning arrow, a sunbeam arrow, a rainbow arrow, and a great stone knife or knife club (peshál).
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5 · Next morning
Ni'ltsi Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
As they approached the stream, Ni'ltsi, the Wind, whispered: "This is another trial;" but he blew a great breath and formed a bridge of rainbow, over which the brothers passed in safety.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5
"On which wands will ye ascend?" they answered: "On the wands of red stone," for they sought war with their enemies.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5
Now Ni'ltsi prompted the younger brother, and showed him which were the sacred mountains and which the great rivers
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5 · 📍 [[Tsótsil]]
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
Then, renewing his promises, he spread a streak of lightning; he made his children stand on it,--one on each end,--and he shot them down to the top of Tsótsil (Mt. San Mateo, Mt. Taylor).
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5 · 📍 [[Tó`sato]]
They shot one of the lightning arrows at Tsótsil; it made a great cleft in the mountain, which remains to this day
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5 · 📍 [[Tó`sato]]
Yéitso Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
He hurled four bolts rapidly; as he hurled the second, they bent their rainbow and rose, while the bolt passed under their feet; as he discharged the third they descended, and let the lightning pass over them.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5 · 📍 [[Tó`sato]]
The third lightning arrow made him topple toward the west, and the fourth to the north. Then he fell to his knees, raised himself partly again, fell flat on his face, stretched out his limbs, and moved no more.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
The brothers then approached their fallen enemy and the younger scalped him. Heretofore the younger brother bore only the name of To`badzistsíni, or Child of the Water; but now his brother gave him also the warrior name of Naídikisi (He Who Cuts Around).
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6 · 📍 [[Tsótsil]]
They cut off his head and threw it away to the other side of Tsótsil, where it may be seen to-day on the eastern side of the mountain.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
Then Nayénezgani took his peshál, or knife club, and drew with it across the valley a line. Here the blood stopped flowing and piled itself up in a high wall.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6 · 📍 [[Dsilnáotil]]
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Yéitso
They then put the broken arrows of Yéitso and his scalp into his basket and set out for their home near Dsilnáotil.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
Nayénezgani replied: "We have been to the house of our father, the Sun. We have been to Tsótsil and we have slain Yéitso."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
"He lives at Bikehalzi'n," she said.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6 · at sundown
They made two cigarette kethawns of a plant called azeladiltéhe, one black and one blue, each three finger-widths long; to these they attached a sunbeam and laid them in a turquoise dish.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
"I shall go alone to fight Téelget," said Nayénezgani, "while you, younger brother, remain at home and watch these kethawns.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6 · early next morning
Nayénezgani arose early next morning and set out alone to find Téelget.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
"Ah, if that is all you want, I can help you," said Gopher; "and if you slay him, all I ask is his hide.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
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.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6
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
When he approached his dead enemy he found that Hazaí had streaked his own face with the blood of the slain (the streaks remain on the ground squirrel's face to this day), and that Nasi'zi had already begun to remove the skin by gnawing on the insides of the fore-legs. When Gopher had removed the skin, he put it on his own back and said: "I shall wear this in order that, in the days to come, when the people increase, they may know what sort of a skin Téelget wore." He had a skin like that which covers the Gopher to-day. Hazaí cut out a piece of the bowel, filled it with blood, and tied the ends; he cut out also a piece of one of the lungs, and he gave these to Nayénezgani for his trophies.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Bikehalzi'n]]
"I have been to Bikehalzi'n and I have slain Téelget," he replied.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · Next morning early
Next morning early he stole away, taking with him the piece of bowel filled with blood.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Tsé`bitaï]]
Three times Nayénezgani escaped; but the fourth time, flying from the north, the monster seized him in his talons and bore him off to Tsé`bitaï.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Tsé`bitaï]]
This fall had killed all others who had dropped there; but Nayénezgani was preserved by the life-feather, the gift of Spider Woman, which he still kept.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Tsé`bitaï]]
Then Nayénezgani hurled a lightning arrow and the monster tumbled to the foot of Winged Rock dead.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Tsé`bitaï]]
Nayénezgani the female Tse`na'hale
A moment later she glided down, and was just about to light on her favorite crag, when Nayénezgani hurled another lightning arrow and sent her body down to the plain to join that of her mate.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Tsé`bitaï]]
He swung the fledgling back and forth four times; as he did so it began to change into a beautiful bird with strong wings, and it said: "Suk, suk, suk, suk." Then he threw it high in the air. It spread its pinions and soared out of sight, an eagle.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Tsé`bitaï]]
He swung it back and forth, and as he did so its head grew large and round; its eyes grew big; it began to say, "Uwú, uwú, uwú, uwú," and it became an owl. Then he threw it into a hole in the side of the cliff and said: "This shall be your home."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 8 · 📍 [[Tsé`bitaï]] · The sun was about half way down to the horizon
"I will give you the feathers of the Tse`na'hale if you will take me off this rock."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 8
He shut his eyes, and soon felt himself gradually going down; but he heard again the strange flapping against the rock, which so excited his curiosity that he opened his eyes. Instantly he began to fall with dangerous rapidity, and the flapping stopped; she struck him with her stick and bade him shut his eyes. Again he felt himself slowly descending, and the flapping against the rock began. Three times more he disobeyed her, but the last time they were near the bottom of the cliff, and both fell to the ground unhurt.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 8
She laid down her basket and watched, helplessly, her feathers changing into little birds of all kinds,--wrens, warblers, titmice, and the like,--and flying away, until her basket was empty. Thus it was that the little birds were created.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 8
Nayénezgani [[Tsetahotsiltáli]]
Then the hero struck his enemy with his great stone knife over the eyes, and struck him again and again till he felt sure that he had slain him; but he was surprised to find that the body did not fall down the cliff. He cut with his knife under the corpse in different places, but found nothing that held it to the rock until he came to the head, and then he discovered that the long hair grew, like the roots of a cedar, into a cleft in the rock. When he cut the hair, the body tumbled down out of sight.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9
He ran among them, and hacked at them in every direction with his great stone knife. They fled; but he pursued them, and in a little while he had killed all but one.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9 · 📍 [[Natsisaán]]
The boy went to Natsisaán, as he was told, and there he became the progenitor of the Pahutes, a people ugly, starved, and ragged, who never wash themselves and live on the vermin of the desert.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9
when he asked his mother, "Where is the home of the Bináye Aháni, the people who slay with their eyes," she begged him, as before, to rest contented and run no more risks; but she added: "They live at Tse`ahalzi'ni, Rock with Black Hole."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9 · 📍 [[Tse`ahalzi'ni]]
Then into the fire in the centre of the lodge he threw the salt, which spluttered and flew in every direction, striking the eyes of the anáye and blinding them. While they held down their heads in pain, he struck with his great stone knife and killed all except the two youngest.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9
and he changed it into a bird called Tsidiltói (shooting or exploring bird). He addressed the younger, saying: "It will be your task to make things beautiful, to make the earth happy." And he changed it into a bird called Hostódi, which is sleepy in the daytime and comes out at night.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9
When she had finished her rejoicings he asked, "Where shall I find Sasnalkáhi (Bear that Pursues)?" "He lives at Tse`bahástsit (Rock that Frightens)," she replied;
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9 · 📍 [[Tse`bahástsit]] · Next morning
In a little while the bear thrust forth his head to look, and Nayénezgani cut it off with his great stone knife.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 9
He cut the head into three pieces: he threw one to the east, where it became tsási, or haskán (Yucca baccata); he threw another to the west, where it became tsásitsoz (Yucca angustifolia); and he threw the third to the south, where it became nóta (mescal). He cut off the left forepaw to take home as a trophy.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[San Juan River]]
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.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[San Juan River]]
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."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · ever since
Tsé`nagahi has kept his promise ever since, and has become the Tiéholtsodi of the upper world.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[house of the Sun]] · On the morning of the fourth night
During the four days of rest, the brothers consulted as to how they might slay all these enemies, and they determined to visit again the house of the Sun. On the morning of the fourth night they started for the east.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[house of the Sun]]
Nayénezgani [[Tobadzistsíni]] [[Tsápani]] [[Tsápani]] [[Tónenili]]
Immediately after the last flash Tsápani, Bat, and Tó`nenili, Water Sprinkler, entered. "Do not be angry with us," said the intruders; "we flung the lightning only because we feel happy and want to play with you:"
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[house of the Sun]]
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Tsóhanoai
Here are seats for you. Be seated." Saying this, he offered the brothers a seat of shell and a seat of turquoise; but Ni'ltsi told the brothers not to take them. "These are seats of peace," he said; "you still want help in war. Nayénezgani, take the seat of red stone, which is the warrior's seat; and you, To`badzistsíni, stand."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[house of the Sun]]
Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni Tsóhanoai
I am willing to help you again; but I wish to know, first, if you are willing to do something for me. I have a long way to travel every day, and often, in the long summer days, I do not get through in time, and then I have no place to rest or eat till I get back to my home in the east. I wish you to send your mother to the west that she may make a new home for me.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[house of the Sun]]
"I will do it," said Nayénezgani; "I will send her there."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[house of the Sun]]
To`badzistsíni Estsánatlehi Tsóhanoai
But To`badzistsíni said: "No, Estsánatlehi is under the power of none; we cannot make promises for her, she must speak for herself, she is her own mistress; but I shall tell her your wishes and plead for you."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 [[house of the Sun]]
Tsóhanoai Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
He took out also four great hailstones, colored like the four first hoops. He gave all these to his sons and said: "Your mother will know what to do with these things."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 11
She threw the shining hoop up toward the zenith, threw the four colored knives in the same direction, and blew a powerful breath after them. Up they all went until they were lost to sight in the sky. As each hoop went away thunder was heard.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 11 · During four days after this
"My son, I fear for our house," she said when she came back. "It is high among the mountains, and the great winds may destroy it."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 11
He covered the house first with a black cloud, which he fastened to the ground with rainbows; second, with a black fog, which he fastened down with sunbeams; third, with a black cloud, which he secured with sheet-lightning; and fourth, with a black fog, which he secured with chain-lightning.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 11 · On the morning of the fifth day
On the morning of the fifth day the tumult ceased, and Nayénezgani, going out, found that all was calm, though it was still dark. He now proceeded to remove the coverings from the lodge and threw them upwards toward the heavens.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 11 · 📍 [[Depe'ntsa]] · Next morning
"Grandmother, if you keep this promise I shall spare your life," said Nayénezgani, and he returned to his mother without a trophy.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 12 · 📍 [[Depe'ntsa]] · Next day
He lowered the hand he had raised to strike her, saying: "You speak wisely, grandmother; I shall let you live."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 12 · 📍 [[Dsildasdzi'ni]] · next day
Nayénezgani Poverty (the old man) Poverty (the old woman)
So he spared them and went home without a trophy.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 12 · 📍 [[Tlóhadaskaí]]
Nayénezgani the chief of the Hunger People
So he spared also the Ditsi'n, and went home without a trophy.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 12
Then he took off his armor--his knife, moccasins, leggings, shirt, and cap--and laid them in a pile; he put with them the various weapons which the Sun had given him, and he sang this song:--
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 12
When the god had greeted his children and taken a seat, he said to the elder brother: "My son, do you think you have slain all the anáye?" "Yes, father," replied the son, "I think I have killed all that should die."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 12
He took the trophies and the armor and said: "These I shall carry back to my house in the east and keep them safe. If you ever need them again, come and get them."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 13 · 📍 [[Tsolíhi]] · At the end of four days
At the end of four days Estsánatlehi went to the top of Tsolíhi and sat down on a rock. Tsóhanoai came, sat beside her, and sought to embrace her; but she avoided him, saying: "What do you mean by this? I want none of your embraces."
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 13
Do all this for me and I shall go with you to the west." He promised all these things to her, and he made elk, buffalo, deer, long-tail deer, mountain sheep, jack-rabbits, and prairie-dogs to go with her.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 13 · 📍 [[the great water]]
after a while Estsánatlehi arrived at the great water and went to dwell in her floating house beyond the shore.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 13 · every day that he crosses the sky
Here she still lives, and here the Sun visits her, when his journey is done, every day that he crosses the sky.
Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 13 · 📍 [[To`ye'tli]] · When Estsánatlehi had departed
When Estsánatlehi had departed, Nayénezgani and To
badzistsíni went, as their father had bidden them, to Toye'tli, where two rivers join, in the valley of the San Juan; there they made their dwelling
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 1 · Before Estsánatlehi left
Before Estsánatlehi left, she said to Yolkaí Estsán: "Now, younger sister, I must leave you. Think well what you would most like to do after I am gone." The younger sister replied: "I would most like to go back to Depe'ntsa, where our people came from."
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 1 · 📍 [[Depe'ntsa]] · On the fifth day
On the fifth day she came down to the shores of the lake which surrounded the Place of Emergence, and built a shelter of brush. "I may as well stay here," she said to herself; "what does it avail that I wander round?"
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 1 · The next morning
I pity your loneliness and wish to help you. If you remain where you are, I shall return in four days and bring Estsánatlehi, the divine ones of all the great mountains, and other gods, with me.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 1 · At dawn on the fourth day after the god departed
At first Yolkaí Estsán stood in the west; but her sister, Estsánatlehi, said to her: "No, my young sister; go you and stand in the east. My place is in the west," and thus they stood during the ceremony.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 1
Hastséyalti Tse`gádinatini Asiké the Grasshopper Girl Ni'ltsi the boy made of corn (Origin Legend IV) the girl made of corn (Origin Legend IV)
When he looked the fourth time, he saw that the white ear of corn was changed to a man, and the yellow ear to a woman. It was Ni'ltsi who gave them the breath of life. He entered at the heads and came out at the ends of the fingers and toes, and to this day we see his trail in the tip of every human finger. The Rock Crystal Boy furnished them with mind, and the Grasshopper Girl gave them voices.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 1
Yolkaí Estsán the boy made of corn (Origin Legend IV) the girl made of corn (Origin Legend IV)
Yolkaí Estsán led them into her hogán, and the assembled gods dispersed.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2
the boy made of corn (Origin Legend IV) Hadáhonestid Atét Yolkaí Estsán
So she married the boy made of corn to the Ground-heat Girl
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2
Hadáhonige Asiké the girl made of corn (Origin Legend IV) Yolkaí Estsán
and the Mirage Boy to the girl made of corn.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · After a time
the boy made of corn (Origin Legend IV) Hadáhonestid Atét
After a time each couple had two children,--a boy and a girl.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · After a time
Hadáhonige Asiké the girl made of corn (Origin Legend IV)
After a time each couple had two children,--a boy and a girl.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · 📍 [[Hadzinaí]] · When these were large enough to run around
the boy made of corn (Origin Legend IV) Hadáhonige Asiké Hadáhonestid Atét the girl made of corn (Origin Legend IV)
When these were large enough to run around, this family all moved away from Hadzinaí, where they had lived four years, to Tse`lakaíia (White Standing Rock).
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · The next morning after the arrival of the Tse`tláni
Hastséyalti came once more to the lodge of the White Shell Woman; but he talked with her apart from the others
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · In three days
In three days he came back again; again they talked apart
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · In the morning after the second visit of Hastséyalti
Yolkaí Estsán the girl made of corn (Origin Legend IV)
In the morning after the second visit of Hastséyalti she said to this little girl: "I am going to leave you. The gods of Tse`gíhi have sent for me;
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · When she had spoken
Yolkaí Estsán the girl made of corn (Origin Legend IV)
When she had spoken she disappeared from the sight of the little girl
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 3
After the departure of Yolkaí Estsán the people all moved to To`dokónzi;
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 3 · When the tribe had been living six years on the banks of the San Juan
Nabiniltáhi
When the tribe had been living six years on the banks of the San Juan, a band joined them who came from Tsi'nadzin (Black Horizontal Forest), and were named as a gens from the place whence they came. The Navahoes observed that in this band there was a man who talked a great deal to the people almost every morning and evening. The Navahoes did not at first understand what this meant; but after a while they learned he spoke to his people because he was their chief. His name was Nabiniltáhi.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 4 · 📍 [[Hyíetyin]]
Góntso
Here was a smooth, sandy plain, which they thought would be good for farming, and the chief, whose name was Góntso, or Big Knee, had stakes set around the plain to show that his people claimed it.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 4 · 📍 [[Hyíetyin]] · year after year
Góntso
The chief of the Tsinadzi'ni and Góntso often visited one another at night, year after year, for the purpose of uniting the two languages and picking out the words in each that were best.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 4
Góntso
So the next wife whom he detected in crime he mutilated in a shameful way, and she died in consequence. He cut off the ears of the next transgressor, and she, too, died. He amputated the breasts of the third wife who offended him, and she died also. He cut off the nose of the fourth; she did not die.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 4
Góntso
He determined then that cutting the nose should, in future, be the greatest punishment imposed on the faithless wife,--something that would disfigure but not kill,--and the rest of the people agreed with him.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 4 · About this time
Góntso
About this time the people determined to have a great ceremony for the benefit of Big Knee; so they made great preparations and held a rite of nine days' duration.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 5 · 📍 [[Kinlitsí]]
Napaílinta a girl captured by Napaílinta
A man named Napaílinta got up a war party and made a raid on a pueblo named Kinlitsí (Red House), and returned with some captives, among whom was a girl captured by Napaílinta.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 6
Here she rubbed epidermis from under her left arm with her right hand; she held this in her palm and it changed into four persons,--two men and two women,--from whom descended a gens
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 6
I wish you to dwell near me, where I can always see you; but if you choose to go to the east, where your kindred dwell, you may go.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 6
she made for them two more people out of turquoise, and this completed their original number of twelve.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 6
I shall give you five of my pets,--a bear, a great snake, a deer, a porcupine, and a puma,--to watch over you.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 7 · the second night
a maiden among the wanderers (Origin Legend IV) the Kiltsói man
Her people refused him at first; but when he came the second night and begged for her again, they gave her to him.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 7 · 📍 [[the valley]]
a maiden among the wanderers (Origin Legend IV) the Kiltsói man
They argued long; but in the end the woman's relations prevailed, and the Kiltsói man joined them on their journey.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 8
[[Bainili'ni]]
Here one man, and one only,--whose name was Bainili'ni (Looks on at a Battle),--killed a deer, a large one, which he cut into small pieces and distributed around so that every one might get a taste.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 8 · 📍 [[San Francisco Mountain]] · While the people were camped at this spring
[[the puma (Origin Legend IV)]]
While the people were camped at this spring he killed a deer.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Yótso]]
the last two messengers
The last two messengers sent out pursued one of the fugitive bands some distance, gave up the task, and returned to Yótso.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[San Juan River]] · After a while
the two messengers
After a while they saw its camp-fires; but at such a great distance that they despaired of overtaking it and turned toward the San Juan River, where they found at length the long-sought Navahoes.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · When spring-time came
some of the To`ditsíni
They remained and became the gens of Tsinsakádni, People of the (Lone) Tree, who are closely related to To`ditsíni and cannot marry with the latter.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Pinbitó`]]
some more of the gens of To`ditsíni
Here they formed a new gens of Pinbitó
dine, People of Deer Spring, who are also closely related to To`ditsíni.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Pinbitó`]]
the pet deer
At this place they wanted their pet deer to leave them, but he would not go; he remained at the spring with the people who stayed there.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Hyíetyin]]
Góntso
Big Knee was still alive when they came; but he was very old and feeble, and was not respected and obeyed as in former days.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Hyíetyin]]
Thá`paha Hasli'zni
When Thá
paha and Hasli'zni met, they traced some relationship between the two gentes: their names had much the same meaning; their headdresses and accoutrements were alike; so the Hasli'zni stopped with Thápaha and became great friends with the latter.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Tsúskai (the Chusca Mountains)]]
the immigrants the bear
They turned him loose in Tsúskai, and bears have been numerous there ever since.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Tsé`nahapil]] · One day
the hunters the man
Then they found he spoke the same language they did, and they addressed him in terms of relationship.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Tsé`nahapil]] · that night
the two parties the strangers
The two parties camped together that night and related to one another their histories and adventures.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Tsé`nahapil]]
the nameless ones the strangers
but the nameless ones gave them the name of Tse`nahapi'lni, Overhanging Rocks People, from the place where they met. With this name they became a gens of the Navahoes.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · 📍 [[Tsóhanaa]]
the Tse`nahapi'lni the nameless people the Apaches
When they were ready they went to the south and found, at a place called Tsóhanaa, the Apaches, who recognized them as friends, and treated their visitors so well that the latter concluded to remain for a while.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 9 · About the end of that time
the old woman the nameless people
I have walked around you, and I call you Honagá`ni (Walked-around People).
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 10
the strange children
Under this name they became united to the Navahoes as a new gens, and they are now closely affiliated with Thá`paha.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 10 · 📍 [[Saíbehogan]]
two girls
At that place they captured two girls and brought them home as slaves.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 10 · 📍 [[Jemez pueblo]] · On this raid
a Jemez girl
On this raid one of the Tlastsíni captured a Jemez girl, but sold her to one of the Tse`dzinki'ni.
Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 10 · 📍 [[Tótso]] · When the Bitáni were encamped at a place called Tó`tso
a man a woman
a man and a woman came up out of the water and joined them.
Nati'nesthani · Part 1
Nati'nesthani delighted in gambling, but was not successful. He lost at game, not only all his own goods, but all the goods and jewels of his relations, until there was only one article of value left--a necklace consisting of several strings of white beads.
Nati'nesthani · Part 1 · The day the necklace was brought
Nati'nesthani's brother Nati'nesthani's grandmother
When the gambler had parted with everything except the necklace, his brother took this to the lodge of his grandmother and gave it to her, saying: "My brother has gambled away everything save this. Should he lose this at game, it is the last thing he will ever lose, for then I shall kill him."
Nati'nesthani · Part 1 · The day the necklace was brought
Nati'nesthani's niece Nati'nesthani
"It is put here for safe-keeping," replied his niece. "Your brother values it and has asked us to take care of it. If you lose it in gambling, he has threatened to kill you. I have heard the counsels of the family about you. They are tired of you. If you lose this necklace at play, it is the last thing you will ever lose."
Nati'nesthani · Part 1 · the next day
In the morning after this night of thought he asked his niece to roast for him four wood-rats; he tied these together and set out for the San Juan River.
Nati'nesthani · Part 1 · 📍 [[San Juan River]] · In the morning after this night of thought
When he got to the banks of the river he examined a number of cottonwood trees until he found one that suited him. He burned this down and burned it off square at the base.
Nati'nesthani · Part 1 · 📍 [[San Juan River]] · next morning
He went back, next morning, to his log on the banks of the San Juan, and spent the day making the log hollow by means of fire, beginning at the butt end.
Nati'nesthani · Part 1 · The next day, after the hole was finished
The next day, after the hole was finished, was spent in making and inserting plugs.
Nati'nesthani · Part 2 · The next morning
The next morning his niece cooked several wood-rats and ground for him a good quantity--as much as could be held in two hands--of the seeds of tlo`tsózi (Sporobolus cryptandrus).
Nati'nesthani · Part 2
Hastséyalti did not speak at first, but told the man by signs that he must not get into the log, that he would surely be drowned if he did, and that he must go home.
Nati'nesthani · Part 2 · On the evening of the third day
Nati'nesthani Nati'nesthani's niece
On the evening of the third day, after they had washed themselves with the yucca suds, he told her about the baskets and the sacred buckskins which he needed. She went to the neighboring lodge and stole these articles, wrapping the baskets up in the buckskins.
Nati'nesthani · Part 2 · At dawn
Nati'nesthani Nati'nesthani's grandmother
The fourth time the call sounded loud and clear, as if cried by one standing at the door. "Hear," he said to his grandmother. "Is that not truly the voice of a divine one?" At last she believed him, and said in wonder: "Why should the digíni come to visit us?"
Nati'nesthani · Part 2
Hastséyalti Hastséhogan Nati'nesthani Nati'nesthani's niece Nati'nesthani's grandmother
The niece had a pet turkey that roosted on a tree near the lodge, Hastséyalti made signs to the Navaho to take the turkey along. The Navaho said: "My niece, the gods bid me take your turkey, and I would gladly do it, for I am going among strange people, where I shall be lonely. I love the bird; he would be company to me and remind me of my home. Yet I shall not take him against your will." "Then you may have my turkey pet," replied the niece.
Nati'nesthani · Part 2
Hastséyalti Hastséhogan Nati'nesthani
The gods turned the rainbow around sunwise, so that its head, which formerly pointed to the door of the lodge, now pointed in a new direction. Hastséyalti got on the bow first. He made the Navaho get on behind him. Hastséhogan got on behind the man.
Nati'nesthani · Part 3 · 📍 [[Tsé`tadi]] · In a moment
The Navaho obeyed and found himself far away from his home at Tsé`tadi, where the digíni dwelt. They led him into a house in the rock which was full of divine people.
Nati'nesthani · Part 3
"Do you still wish to go to To
ye'tli?" said Nayénezgani. "Yes," said the Navaho, "I wish to go to Toye'tli or as far down the San Juan as I can get." "Then you shall go," said the god.
Nati'nesthani · Part 3
They wrapped the Navaho up in the cloud and put him into the log.
Nati'nesthani · Part 3 · 📍 [[the margin of the river]]
As they went along some became tired and were about to let the log go, but the winds came to help them--Black Wind and Blue Wind in front, Yellow Wind and White Wind behind, and soon the log was borne to the margin of the river.
Nati'nesthani · Part 4
When the gods were punching the log to get it into the current, the Navaho sang a song, the principal words of which were:-- "A beautiful tree, they push with me."
Nati'nesthani · Part 4
When the log was about to go down the stream, he sang:-- "A beautiful tree is about to float along with me," and when the log got into the current and went down, he sang:-- "A beautiful tree floats along with me."
Nati'nesthani · Part 4 · 📍 [[Tó`hodotliz]]
It was the sacred people under the water who had pulled the log down this time. These were Tiéholtsodi, Tielín, Frog, Fish, Beaver, Otter, and others. They took the Navaho out of the log and bore him down to their home under the water.
Nati'nesthani · Part 4 · 📍 [[Tó`hodotliz]]
He went around the tree, and when he came to the butt he found that the plug had been withdrawn and that the Navaho was no longer there.
Nati'nesthani · Part 4
"I seek my grandchild. Give him to me," said Tó`nenili. "Shut your mouth and begone," said Tiéholtsodi. "Such as you cannot come here giving orders. I fear you not, Water Sprinkler; you shall not have your grandchild."
Nati'nesthani · Part 4
He hastened to the river, taking Tó
nenili with him, for Tónenili had the power to open the water, and these two descended into the river.
Nati'nesthani · Part 4
Then Tiéholtsodi cried: "Take your grandchild, but put out the flames."
Nati'nesthani · Part 4
Hastsézini Tó`nenili Nati'nesthani Tiéholtsodi
At a sign from Black God, Water Sprinkler took the stoppers out of his jars and scattered water all around him four times, crying his usual "Tu
wuwu`wú" as he did so, and the flames died out.
Nati'nesthani · Part 5 · 📍 [[San Juan River]]
Nati'nesthani the Fringe-mouths of the water
At length the Dsahadoldzá, the Fringe-mouths of the water, came to help. They put the zigzag lightning which was on their bodies under the butt of the log,--as if the lightning were a rope,--and soon they got the log loose and sent it floating down the river.
Nati'nesthani · Part 5 · 📍 [[Tó`nihilin]]
They pried out one of the stoppers with their wands, and the Navaho came out on the land.
Nati'nesthani · Part 5
We have done for you all that in the beginning you asked us to do, and now we shall give you a new name. Henceforth you shall be called Áhodiseli, He Who Floats.
Nati'nesthani · Part 5
Nati'nesthani Nati'nesthani's pet turkey
and a moment later he beheld, running toward him, his pet turkey, whom he had thought he would never see again. The turkey, which had followed him all the way down the San Juan River, now approached its master from the east, as if it were coming to him at once; but when it got within arm's length of the man it retreated and went round him sunwise, approaching and retreating again at the south, the west, and the north. When it got to the east again it ran up to its master and allowed itself to be embraced.
Nati'nesthani · Part 6
Nati'nesthani's pet turkey Nati'nesthani
The turkey ran a little way to the east and shook its wings, from which four grains of white corn dropped out; then it ran to the south and shook from its wings four grains of blue corn; at the west it shook out four grains of yellow corn, and at the north four grains of variegated corn. Then it ran up to its master from the east and shook its wings four times, each time shaking out four seeds. The first time it dropped pumpkin seeds; the second time, watermelon seeds; the third time, muskmelon seeds; the fourth time, beans.
Nati'nesthani · Part 6
He dug four holes in the east with the stick of tsintli'zi, and dropped into each hole a grain of white corn. He dug four holes in the south with his greasewood stick, and placed in each hole one grain of blue corn. He dug four holes in the west with the tsintli'zi stick, and planted in each one grain of yellow corn. He made four holes in the north with the greasewood, and put in each one grain of variegated corn.
Nati'nesthani · Part 6 · on the fourth morning
On the fourth morning he saw that the corn had grown half a finger-length above the ground.
Nati'nesthani · Part 6
He climbed to the shelf and discovered there two nice huts. He thought that wealthy people must dwell in them.
Nati'nesthani · Part 7
Just as the Navaho had made up his mind to go to the other house the father entered. Doubtless the Navaho had been observed while disrobing, for the old man, as he came in, brought the poor rags with him. "Why do you not take in my son-in-law's goods?" said the old man to his daughter
Nati'nesthani · Part 7 · On the fourth occasion
On the fourth occasion the Navaho added: "I belong to the Ninokádine
(the People up on the Earth), and I have nothing." "I thought the Ninokádinehad plenty of tobacco," said the old man. The young man now drew from his pouch, which was adorned with pictures of the sun and moon, a mixture of native wild tobacco with four other plants. His pipe was made of clay, collected from a place where a wood-rat had been tearing the ground. He filled the pipe with the mixture, lighted it with the sun, sucked it four times till it was well kindled, and handed it to the old man to smoke. When the latter had finished the pipe and laid it down he began to perspire violently and soon fell into a swoon.
Nati'nesthani · Part 7
Píniltani-bitsí Píniltani-baád
The mother gave the young woman a quantity of goods and said: "Give these to my son-in-law and tell him they shall all be his if he restores your father to life."
Nati'nesthani · Part 7
When this fumigation was done, the patient began to show signs of life,--his eyelids twitched, his limbs jerked, his body shook. Nati'nesthani directed the young woman to put some of the medicine, with water, to soak in an earthen bowl,--no other kind of bowl is now used in making this infusion,--and when it was soaked enough he rubbed it on the body of the patient. "Sadáni, sitá (My son-in-law, my nephew)," said the old man, when he came to his senses once more
Nati'nesthani · Part 7 · As on the previous occasion
Four times did the old man beg and thrice the young man refused him; but when the fourth request was made the young man filled the pipe, lit it as before, and handed it to the old man. The latter smoked, knocked out the ashes, laid down the pipe, began to perspire, and fell again into a deathly swoon. As on the previous occasion, the women were alarmed and offered the Navaho a large fee, in goods, if he would restore the smoker to life. The medicine being administered and the ceremonies being repeated, the old man became again conscious.
Nati'nesthani · Part 7 · A third time
A third time the pipe was filled; the old man smoked and swooned; the women gave presents to the Navaho; the atsósi ké`tlo was administered, and the smoker came to life again.
Nati'nesthani · Part 7 · This time
This time the old man smoked vigorously; he drew the smoke well into his chest and kept it there a long time before blowing it out. Everything happened now as before, but in addition to the medicine used previously, the Navaho scattered the fragrant yádidinil on the hot coals and let the patient breathe its fumes. The Navaho had now four large bundles of fine goods as pay for his services. When the old man recovered for the fourth time he praised loudly the tobacco of the Navaho.
Nati'nesthani · Part 7 · While he was gone
He asked the Navaho: "How would you like to try my tobacco?" and he went to the other lodge to fetch his tobacco pouch. While he was gone the Wind People whispered into the ear of the Navaho: "His tobacco will kill you surely. It is not like your tobacco. Those who smoke it never wake again!"
Nati'nesthani · Part 8
he only told this to the old man to conceal the fact that he had filled the pipe with poisoned tobacco.
Nati'nesthani · Part 8 · the morning after his marriage
Deer Raiser Píniltani-bitsí Nati'nesthani
On the atáatlo (the part where the coil terminates, the point of finish), the old man had, with the knowledge of his daughter, placed poison. She presented the basket to the stranger, with the point of finish toward him, as her father had directed her to do, saying: "When a stranger visits us we always expect him to eat from the part of the basket where it is finished." As he took the basket the Wind People whispered to him: "Eat not from that part of the basket; death is there, but there is no death in the venison." The young man turned the basket around and began to eat from the side opposite to that which was presented to him, saying: "It is my custom to eat from the edge opposite to the point of finish."
Nati'nesthani · Part 8 · Next morning
Deer Raiser Píniltani-bitsí Nati'nesthani
But Wind whispered: "There is poison all around the edge of the basket this time; there is none in the venison." The Navaho ate some of the stew, and when he took the basket of mush he ate only from the middle, saying: "When I eat just as the sun is about to come up, it is my custom to eat only from the middle of the basket."
Nati'nesthani · Part 8
Deer Raiser Píniltani-bitsí Nati'nesthani
It is not the custom for a man to go home the morning after his marriage.
Nati'nesthani · Part 9
Nati'nesthani Nati'nesthani's pet turkey
The Navaho never saw his pet again; it had flown to the east
Nati'nesthani · Part 9
She had never seen corn before. He laid the ears down side by side in a row with their points to the east, and said: "This is what we call natán, corn.
Nati'nesthani · Part 10 · 📍 [[the field]]
The Navaho and his wife set out together. When they came to a little hill from which they could first see the field, they beheld the sun shining on it; yet the rain was falling on it at the same time, and above it was a dark cloud spanned by a rainbow.
Nati'nesthani · Part 10
He explained to her how to make the dish now known to the Navahoes as ditlógi klesán, and told her to make this of the white corn.
Nati'nesthani · Part 10
When she had done the old man said: "I thank you, my daughter, for bringing me such a son-in-law. I have travelled far, but I have never seen such things as those you tell of. I thought I was rich, but my son-in-law is richer.
Nati'nesthani · Part 10 · When he got back to the other lodge
The old man then went to see his son-in-law and said: "I thank you for the fine food you have brought us, and I am glad to hear you have such a beautiful farm.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11 · When night came
I have two names. I am Nati'nesthani, He Who Teaches Himself, and I am Áhodiseli, He Who Has Floated.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11 · When night came
He is called Píniltani, Deer Raiser.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11 · In the morning after this conversation
When the meal was over, the young woman said to her husband:
Nati'nesthani · Part 11 · In the morning after this conversation
Dressed in these fine garments he set out with his wife and they travelled toward the southeast.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11
They passed through the door. The land was filled with deer and covered with beautiful flowers.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11
"Look well at these cigarettes," said the old man, "and remember how they are painted, for such we now sacrifice in our ceremonies."
Nati'nesthani · Part 11
Píniltani-bitsí Nati'nesthani Deer Raiser
She opened the eastern door, entered, and caught a big buck by the foot (just as we catch sheep in these days). She pulled it out.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11
Now Deer Raiser began again to plot the death of his son-in-law.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11 · On the following morning
He determined to invite his son-in-law out to hunt with him, and get him killed by these bears.
Nati'nesthani · Part 11 · On the following morning
you must go into the canyon, my son-in-law, while I stay at the entrance and kill the deer. That will be better.
Nati'nesthani · Part 12 · 📍 [[the canyon]]
Nati'nesthani Tsananaí Tse'skodi
As the bears were passing their hidden enemy he drew arrow after arrow to the head and slew them all, one by one.
Nati'nesthani · Part 12 · 📍 [[the canyon]]
The old man looked as he was told, and was struck dumb with astonishment and sorrow.
Nati'nesthani · Part 12 · 📍 [[the canyon]] · As soon as he was out of sight
Reaching home, he hastily dressed himself in the skin of a great serpent, went to the trail which his son-in-law was to take, and lay in ambush behind a log at a place where the path led through a narrow defile.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13 · The next morning after the bears were killed
He said to Nati'nesthani: "I wish you to go out with me to-day and help me to fight my enemies. There are enemies of mine, not far from here, whom I sometimes meet in battle." "I will go with you," said the Navaho.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13
Then, instead of coming to his comrade's help, he ran around the base of the hill and got behind his son-in-law.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13
He fought with them the hardest fight he ever fought; but at length he killed them all, and suffered no harm himself.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13 · In the mean time
In the mean time the old man ran off in the direction of his home, sure that his son-in-law was killed.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13
"When we went out to this battle," said the young man, "we promised not to desert one another. Why did you run away from me?"
Nati'nesthani · Part 13 · 📍 [[Kedidi'lyenaa (Ridge of the Burnt Moccasins)]] · Later in the night
He rose softly, took away the old man's moccasins, put his own in their place, and lay down to sleep with Deer Raiser's moccasins under his head. Later in the night the old man got up, pulled the moccasins from under the young man's head, and buried them in the hot embers.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13 · At dawn
He took them out of his companion's hands, sat down and put them on. "Now we must hurry back," he said. "I can't see what made you burn your moccasins, but I cannot wait for you. I am going now."
Nati'nesthani · Part 13
Nati'nesthani Deer Raiser Píniltani-baád
When the old man met her he was angry. "Why have you come? Why has not my daughter come?" he asked. "Your son-in-law said that I should come," the old woman replied.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13 · When Deer Raiser visited his son-in-law on the following morning
When Deer Raiser visited his son-in-law on the following morning he said: "I warn you never to stray alone to the east of the lodge in which you dwell. There is a dangerous place there."
Nati'nesthani · Part 13 · When Nati'nesthani had eaten in the morning
When Nati'nesthani had eaten in the morning he dressed himself for a journey, left the lodge, and travelled straight to the east.
Nati'nesthani · Part 13
There are people living behind the ridge you are climbing. You should visit them, and hear what they will have to tell you.
Nati'nesthani · Part 14
Nati'nesthani the owner of the lodge (Nati'nesthani legend)
The Navaho remained silent. He knew all the ways of the Deer Raiser, but he pretended not to know. Then the host went on: "The house of Deer Raiser is a place of danger. You will surely be killed if you stay there. I am sorry you are in such bad company, for you seem to be a good man." "You speak of Deer Raiser as a great man; but he cannot be so great as you think he is. Four times have I killed him with smoke, and four times have I brought him to life again," said the Navaho, and then he related all his adventures since he had been with Píniltani.
Nati'nesthani · Part 14
the owner of the lodge (Nati'nesthani legend) Nati'nesthani
"I have some medicine to give you. It is an antidote for Deer Raiser's poison." He gave his visitor two kinds of medicine; one was an object the size of the last two joints of the little finger, made of the gall of birds of prey,--all birds that catch with their claws; the other was a small quantity (as much as one might grasp with the tips of all the fingers of one hand) of a substance composed of material vomited by each of the five animals that were the totems of this people.
Nati'nesthani · Part 14
Nati'nesthani the owner of the lodge (Nati'nesthani legend)
"You speak of Deer Raiser as a great man; but he cannot be so great as you think he is. Four times have I killed him with smoke, and four times have I brought him to life again," said the Navaho
Nati'nesthani · Part 14 · Next day
Next day, when he had eaten, he dressed himself for a journey and walked toward the south.
Nati'nesthani · Part 14
The little man told the Navaho to go on over the ridge till he came to two lodges and to listen there to what the people would tell him. He went and found two lodges, and people playing nánzoz, and had all things happen to him nearly the same as happened to him in the east.
Nati'nesthani · Part 15
He told him, too, that he had learned of cigarettes, and medicines, and charms, and rites to protect him against a wizard's power. "You have killed others," said Nati'nesthani, "you have tried to kill me. I knew it all the time, but said nothing. Now I know all of your wickedness."
Nati'nesthani · Part 15
"All that you say is true," said the old man; "but I shall seek your life no more, and I shall give up all my evil ways.
Nati'nesthani · Part 15
His son-in-law did as he was desired, and in doing so performed the first atsósi hatál.
Nati'nesthani · Part 15 · After treating his father-in-law
After treating his father-in-law, Nati'nesthani returned to his people, taught them all he had learned while he was gone, and thus established the rite of atsósi hatál among the Navahoes.
Nati'nesthani · Part 15 · 📍 [[the whirling lake of Tó`nihilin]]
Then he went back to the whirling lake of Tó`nihilin, and he dwells there still.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 1 · 📍 [[Standing Rock]] · About sunset
the two young men
they strained their sight to get a last look he seemed to them to descend on the top of Standing Rock.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ki'ndotliz]]
the two young men
so when the young men got home and told the story of their day's adventures, it became the subject of much conversation and counsel, and at length the people determined to send four men, in the morning, to take sight over the forked stick, in order to find out where the eagle lived.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 1 · 📍 [[Tsedezá]] · Next morning early
the four men
They went at once to the rock, climbed to the summit, and saw the eagle and its young in a cleft on the face of the precipice below them.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 1 · 📍 [[an estufa]] · At night
the four men
At night they went home and told what they had seen. They had observed two young eagles of different ages in the nest.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 1 · 📍 [[an estufa]]
the two pueblos
there it was decided that Ki'ndotliz should have the elder of the two eaglets and that Kintyél should have the younger.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 1 · 📍 [[Tsedezá]] · On the following morning
The Navaho then entered the basket and was lowered over the edge of the precipice.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 1 · 📍 [[Tsedezá]]
When it touched the cliff he held fast to the rock and scrambled into the nest, leaving the empty basket swinging in the air.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 2 · on the third day
They came early again on the third day, but they came in anger. They no longer called him by friendly names; they no longer made fair promises to him; but, instead, they shot fire-arrows at the eyry in hopes they would burn the Navaho out or set fire to the nest and compel him to throw it and the eaglets down. But he remained watchful and active, and whenever a fire-arrow entered the cave he seized it quickly and threw it out.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 2 · 📍 [[the cave]] · at the end of the fourth day
and at the end of the fourth day they went home and left him in the cave to die.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 2 · 📍 [[the cave]] · Soon after dark
the male Eagle the mother of the eaglets (Kintyél legend) Kinníki
Turning at once toward the Navaho, she said: "Greeting, my child! Thanks, my child! You have not thrown down your younger brother, Donikí." The male Eagle repeated the same words.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 2 · 📍 [[the cave]]
The Eagle mixed a little of the water with some of the meal in the shell and handed the mixture to the Navaho. The latter ate and ate, until he was satisfied, but he could not diminish in the least the contents of the shell vessel.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 3
but at length they all flew away without giving him the dress.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 3 · 📍 [[Tsótsil (Mt. Taylor)]]
The Eagles released their hold on the supports, and the Navaho felt himself descending swiftly toward the earth.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 3
The Arrow-snakes bore him swiftly upwards, up through the sky-hole, and landed him safely on the surface of the upper world above the sky.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 3 · In a few days
In a few days another war party was organized, and this time the Navaho determined to go with it.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 3
She invited him into her house, and he passed down the ladder.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 3
I want some new plumes to adorn my hoops, and you can get them for me.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 3
She gave him a long black cane and said: "With this you can gather the tumble-weeds into a pile, and then you can set them on fire.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 4
He gave her the plumes and she said: "Thank you, my grandchild, you have brought me the plumes that I have long wanted to adorn my walls, and you have done a great service to your friends, the Eagles, because you have slain their enemies."
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 4 · 📍 [[the towns of the Eagles]] · next morning
He slept that night on the trail, and next morning he got back to the towns of the Eagles.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 4 · 📍 [[the towns of the Eagles]]
The third time that he swung the bees around his head they were still less frightened, ran but half way to their houses, and returned very soon. The fourth time that he swung the bees they only stepped back a step or two. When their courage came back to them, he laid the two bees on the ground; he took out the seeds of the tumble-weeds and laid them on the ground beside the bees, and then he said to the Eagle People: "My friends, here are the children of your enemies; when you see these you may know that I have slain your enemies."
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 4
Then Great Wolf, chief of the white pueblo, said: "I have two beautiful maiden daughters whom I shall give to you."
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 4
[[Fox]] Kinníki
Then Fox, chief of the blue pueblo in the south, promised him two more maidens, and the chiefs of the other pueblos promised him two each, so that eight beautiful maidens were promised to him in marriage.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 4 · 📍 [[the white pueblo]]
The chief of the white pueblo now conducted the Navaho to his house and into a large and beautiful apartment, the finest the poor Indian had ever seen. It had a smooth wall, nicely coated with white earth, a large fireplace, mealing-stones, beautiful pots and water-jars, and all the conveniences and furniture of a beautiful pueblo home. And the chief said to him: "Sadáni, my son-in-law, this house is yours."
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5 · 📍 [[the pueblos of the Eagle People]]
The maidens of the white house washed his head with the suds; the maidens of the black house washed his limbs and feet, and those of the yellow house dried him with corn meal.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5 · 📍 [[the sky-hole]] · Next morning
As he spoke, he flung them down to the earth. Then taking the seeds of the tumble-weeds in his hands, he spoke to them as he had spoken to the bees, and threw them down through the sky-hole.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5 · 📍 [[the pueblos of the Eagle People]] · twenty-four days
The Navaho remained in the pueblos of the Eagle People twenty-four days, during which time he was taught the songs, prayers, ceremonies, and sacrifices of the Eagles, the same as those now known to us in the rite of yói hatál
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5 · 📍 [[Tsótsil]]
He spread his wings to show that he was ready; the Eagles blew a powerful breath behind him; he went down through the sky-hole, and was wafted down on his outstretched wings until he lit on the summit of Tsótsil.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5
Kinníki Kinníki's younger brother
The brothers spent twelve days in the lodge together, during which the elder brother told his story and instructed the younger in all the rites and songs learned among the Eagles.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5 · 📍 [[Kintyél]]
The people of the pueblo consulted together and concluded to employ his brother to perform the ceremony over their suffering ones.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5 · 📍 [[Kintyél]] · Three days after this conference
He clasped the first in his arms; his fingers did not meet on the opposite side. He clasped the second in his arms, and the tips of his fingers just met. "These," said he, "are the shells I must wear when I dance."
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 6 · 📍 [[Chelly Canyon]] · Four days before that on which the last dance was to occur
Gánaskidi the son of Gánaskidi the daughter of Gánaskidi
One of the messengers went to the Chelly Canyon and there he got Gánaskidi, with his son and daughter, to come and perform a dance.
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 6 · On the evening of the last day
Then the Navaho began to dance, and his brother, the medicine-man, began to sing, and this was the song he sang:--
The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 6 · 📍 [[Kintyél]] · On the evening of the last day
Then they screamed wildly to him and called him by all sorts of dear names--father, brother, son--to come down again, but the more they called the higher he rose. When his feet had risen above them they observed that a streak of white lightning passed under his feet like a rope, and hung from a dark cloud that gathered above. It was the gods that were lifting him; for thus, the legends say, the gods lift mortals to the sky. When the pueblos found that no persuasions could induce the Navaho to return, some called for ropes that they might seize him and pull him down; but he was soon beyond the reach of their longest rope. Then a shout was raised for arrows that they might shoot him; but before the arrows could come he was lost to sight in the black cloud and was never more seen on earth.