Tse`na'hale

Also known as: the male Tse`na'hale · Role: anáye · First appears: Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2

In Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2, the people cast a second misshapen creature away at an alkali bed, but it lived and grew into the terrible Tsena'hale. In Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7, the male Tsena'hale seized Nayénezgani and carried him to Tsébitaï. [[Nayénezgani]] killed him with a lightning arrow, and [[the female Tsena'hale]] was killed by another lightning arrow as she came to join her mate.

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Life events

• The people cast the second misshapen creature away at an alkali bed, but it lived and grew into Tsena'hale.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 2 · 📍 [[Tsetaiská]])
  • With: the people
  • “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.”
• The male Tsena'hale seized Nayénezgani and carried him to Tsébitaï.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 Tsé`bitaï)
  • With: Nayénezgani
  • “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.”
• Nayénezgani killed the male Tsena'hale with a lightning arrow.(Origin Legend III: The War Gods · Part 7 · 📍 [[Tsébitaï]])
  • With: Nayénezgani
  • “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

• enemies with Nayénezgani “Then Nayénezgani hurled a lightning arrow and the monster tumbled to the foot of Winged Rock dead.”
• married with the female Tse`na'hale (They are described as mates.) “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 8

• enemies with Nayénezgani “‘Ah, that must have been the time when Tse`na'hale carried me up and threw me on the rocks,’ said Nayénezgani.”

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