Níyol

Also known as: Whirlwind · Role: holy one · First appears: Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11

In Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11, Níyol, also known as Whirlwind, came with Pésasike to help the younger brother left behind at the lodge. They made him a hidden refuge underground, supplied him with weapons, and gave him monitors to warn of danger by day and night.

In Part 12, Níyol and Pésasike accompanied the young man to where his brothers’ bodies lay and restored them to life. Together they built a new house where the brothers had lived, and the holy ones named the young hero Léyaneyani and told him to dwell at Atáhyitsoi.

Relationship record

Life events

• Whirlwind and Knife Boy made the younger brother a hidden underground refuge and gave him weapons and warning monitors.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11 · 📍 the lodge)
  • With: Pésasike Léyaneyani
  • “They gave him two monitors, Ni'ltsi, the Wind, at his right ear, to warn him by day of the approach of danger; and Tsalyél, darkness, at his left ear, to warn him by night.”
• Níyol and Pésasike restored the young man's dead brothers to life.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12)
  • With: Léyaneyani Pésasike
  • “They led him to the east, to the south, to the west, and to the north, where the corpses of his brothers lay, and these they restored to life for him.”
• The young man and the holy ones built a new house where his brothers had lived.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12)
  • With: Léyaneyani Pésasike
  • “They went back to the place where the brothers had dwelt before and built a new house; but they did not return to the old home”
• The holy ones named the young hero Léyaneyani and told him to dwell at Atáhyitsoi.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12 · 📍 Atáhyitsoi (Big Point on the Edge))
  • With: Léyaneyani Pésasike
  • “The holy ones then gave to the young hero the name of Léyaneyani, or Reared Under the Ground, because they had hidden him in the earth when his brethren fled from the wrath of his sister.”

Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 11

• recipient: Léyaneyani “When they were gone, the Whirlwind, Níyol, and the Knife Boy, Pésasike, came to the lodge to help the younger brother who had remained behind.”

Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 12

• friends with Léyaneyani “Next he sought the homes of his friends, the holy ones, Níyol and Pésasike.”

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