Navaho Legends

Tsápani

Also known as: Bat / the Bat · First appears: Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 4

In Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 4, Tsápani helped the son of Hastséhogan win a game and the wives of Nohoílpi, as he had promised. In Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10, Tsápani and [[Tónenili]] entered the house of the Sun and said they had flung lightning because they were happy and wanted to play with [[Nayénezgani]] and [[Tobadzistsíni]]. Tsápani and Tó`nenili had once been friends of the anáye and did not want them to die, but after the brothers conquered the greatest of the anáye, they were friends of the brothers.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Tsápani (the Bat) and Tó`nenili (Water Sprinkler) entered and said they had flung the lightning to express their happiness.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 house of the Sun)
    • With: Nayénezgani [[Tobadzistsíni]] [[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:’”
  • Tsápani (the Bat) and Tó`nenili (Water Sprinkler) entered and said they had flung the lightning to express their happiness.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 10 · 📍 house of the Sun)
    • With: Nayénezgani [[Tobadzistsíni]] [[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 II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 4

  • recipient: the son of Hastséhogan “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 III: The War Gods · Part 10

  • friends with Nayénezgani “They were once friends of the anáye and did not wish them to die; but now they are friends of yours, since you have conquered the greatest of the anáye.”
  • friends with To`badzistsíni “They were once friends of the anáye and did not wish them to die; but now they are friends of yours, since you have conquered the greatest of the anáye.”

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