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Short Story: The Four Navaho Gods

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The morning of the twelfth day everyone washed themselves, then the women dried with yellow cornmeal and the men white cornmeal. When they were all clean, the four Navaho gods came for them. There was a blue body and a black body who carried a sacred buckskin, and a white body carrying tow ears of corn, one yellow one white. The gods sandwiched the two ears of corn with the two buckskins one facing west the other facing east as well as the corn tips to the east and a feather of and eagle under the yellow corn. The wind came and the mirage people walked around the skins four times and out came a man and a women by the wind that gave them life.

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