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The Navajo Creation Story: The Creation Of Begochiddy

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I could not find the story on LSC database so I used several article found on Google The Navajo creation story: The Navajo's believed that there were six being that were in the first world; (First man) the sun of the night and the blue sky over the sunset, (First Woman) The daughter of the day break and the yellow sky of sunset, Fire god, Salt Woman, Coyote and Begochiddy the first child of the sun. Begochiddy had golden hair and blue eyes. Begochiddy created all things that came into being, Amongst Begochiddy's creation were the 4 mountains, ants, insects and plants. Begochiddy created mountains to the East, North, South and West: The White Mountain, Black Mountain, Blue Mountain and Yellow mountain respectively. Somehow things weren't as pleasant as it should be, so the Fire god out of fury destroyed some …show more content…

And then a fight broke out between the first dwellers (The Cat People and The Swallow People) and the six being but First Man with …show more content…

There were some people residing there and they had great powers, too. The Talking god which was on the East side, On the south side was First Briger Of Seeds, House Of God was on the west side and Second Bringer Of Seeds was on the north side. Begochiddy saw the Fourth world was habitable for all and he made arrangements of the stars, mountains, moon and the sun. The people living in the land needed some sort of heat to keep the warm, Fire God refused to provide head and Coyote stole the heat from Fire God and gave the people heat. Begochiddy thought the people how to live, how to give thanks and how to take care of the plants. Begochiddy later gave them all sorts of languages and they all move and settled around the

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