Yéitso

Family: the anáye (alien gods) · Role: the tallest and fiercest of the alien gods · First appears: Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2

In Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2, Yéitso came to the women’s dwelling seeking the boys, saying, “I would rather eat boys. Where are your boys?” He left after being deceived by the tracks. In Part 5 at Tósato, he hurled lightning bolts at [[Nayénezgani]] and [[Tobadzistsíni]], who dodged them with their rainbow. Tsóhanoai said Yéitso was his son and would help the brothers kill him. When Yéitso drew a fifth bolt, lightning descended on his head, making him reel but not fall; Nayénezgani then struck him with four lightning arrows, and he fell and moved no more. In Part 6 at Dsilnáotil, the brothers took Yéitso’s broken arrows and scalp home and hid them in the bushes.

Relationship record

Life events

• Yéitso came to the women’s dwelling seeking the boys, but left after being deceived by the tracks.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 2)
  • “He compared the two sets of tracks, seemed to be satisfied, and went away.”
• Yéitso hurled lightning bolts at the brothers, but they dodged them with their rainbow.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5 · 📍 Tó`sato)
  • With: 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.”
• As Yéitso drew a fifth bolt, lightning descended from the sky on the giant's head and he reeled beneath it, but did not fall.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5)
  • With: Tsóhanoai
  • “He drew a fifth bolt to throw at them; but at this moment the lightning descended from the sky on the head of the giant and he reeled beneath it, but did not fall.”
• The elder brother struck Yéitso with four lightning arrows, and the giant fell and stopped moving.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5 · 📍 Tó`sato)
  • With: Nayénezgani
  • “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.”
• The brothers took Yéitso’s broken arrows and scalp home and hid them in the bushes.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6 · 📍 Dsilnáotil)
  • With: Nayénezgani To`badzistsíni
  • “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 2

• enemies with Nayénezgani “I would rather eat boys. Where are your boys? I have been told you have some here, and I have come to get them.”
• enemies with To`badzistsíni “I would rather eat boys. Where are your boys? I have been told you have some here, and I have come to get them.”

Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 5

• parent: Tsóhanoai “Know,” said Tsóhanoai, “that Yéitso who dwells at Tsótsil is also my son, yet I will help you to kill him.”
• enemies with Nayénezgani “Then the elder brother sped a chain-lightning arrow; his enemy tottered toward the east, but straightened himself up again.”
• enemies with To`badzistsíni “They were standing on a bent rainbow just then; they straightened the rainbow out, descending to the ground, and at the same instant a lightning bolt, hurled by Yéitso, passed thundering over their heads.”

Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 6

• enemies with Nayénezgani “We have been to Tsótsil and we have slain Yéitso.”
• enemies with To`badzistsíni “The brothers then approached their fallen enemy and the younger scalped him.”

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