Békotsidi

Role: god who carries the moon · First appears: Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5

Life events

• Békotsidi provided Nohoílpi with animals, cloth, and a new people to rule, then sent him back to earth.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 5)
  • With: Nohoílpi
  • “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

• recipient: Nohoílpi “‘You need be poor no longer,’ said Békotsidi; ‘I will provide for you.’ 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.”

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