Kinníki's younger brother

Family: Navaho (Diné`) · Role: younger brother · First appears: The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5

In The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5, Kinníki’s younger brother spent twelve days with him in a medicine-lodge, where Kinníki taught him the rites and songs learned among the Eagles. On the evening of the last day, in Part 6, Kinníki’s younger brother sang while the Navaho danced.

Relationship record

Life events

• The brothers spent twelve days in a medicine-lodge, where the elder brother taught the younger the rites and songs learned among the Eagles.(The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 5)
  • With: Kinníki
  • “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.”
• His brother, the medicine-man, sang while the Navaho danced.(The Great Shell of Kintyél · Part 6)
  • “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 5

• siblings with Kinníki “They bathed his younger brother, clothed him in new raiment, and sent him, too, into the lodge, to learn what his elder brother could tell him.”
• mentor: Kinníki “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 6

• siblings with Kinníki “Then the Navaho began to dance, and his brother, the medicine-man, began to sing, and this was the song he sang:--”

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