Navaho Legends

Hadáhonestid Atét

Also known as: Ground-heat Girl · First appears: Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2

In Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2, Yolkaí Estsán married the boy made of corn to Hadáhonestid Atét, the Ground-heat Girl. She and Hadáhonige Asiké were brother and sister, so could not marry one another.

After a time, Hadáhonestid Atét and the boy made of corn had two children, a boy and a girl. When the children were large enough to run around, the family moved from Hadzinaí, where they had lived four years, to Tse`lakaíia.

Relationship record

Life events

  • When Hastséyalti came again early on the fourth morning after his departure, bringing the Mirage Boy and the Ground-heat Girl, Yolkaí Estsán married the boy made of corn to the Ground-heat Girl.(Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2)
  • The couple had two children, a boy and a girl.(Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2)
  • The family moved away from Hadzinaí to Tse`lakaíia.(Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2 · 📍 Hadzinaí)

Origin Legend IV: Growth of the Navaho Nation · Part 2

  • siblings with Hadáhonige Asiké “This boy and girl of corn cannot marry one another, for they are brother and sister; neither can you marry one another, for you are also brother and sister, yet I must do something for you all.”
  • married with the boy made of corn (Origin Legend IV) “So she married the boy made of corn to the Ground-heat Girl, and the Mirage Boy to the girl made of corn.”

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