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Show 56 iv. asdz4 nAadleehi bidine'e The Holy People Depart From Blessing Way (HozhqQJi) and Male Shooting Way (Na'atbii Bikgji) The two brothers traveled to the home of their mother, Changing Woman. She had settled in a new home on an island that the Sun had created in the western ocean. She showed her two sons the wealth of good things that the rooms in her house contained. Then she gave them their most important task. They were to be guardians of the medicine bundle she had received from First Man. This she gave to them, along with a whiteshell basket and a turquoise basket. They learned the Blessing Way songs and rituals. She also told them about the four sacred jewels and the offerings. Then she told them where to find her if they should ever need her again. After this she spread out four sheets of whiteshell, turquoise, abalone, and jet. She took skin from her chest and shoulders. This she rubbed in her hand over the medicine bundles and four perfect ears of corn. From her own body, thus, she created four pairs of people. These were the first clans of the Navajo People. She placed them on blankets and covered them with Dawn, Evening Twilight, Rising Haze, Mirage, and Darkness. Then she began to create for them the good things of this world. She created for them the medicine bundle containing soil from the four sacred mountains and from Huerfano Mountain and Gobernador Knob. She created for them the first of each type of this world's game animals. As she was working, she told them that different types of game were pets of different Talking Gods. For that reason, the People must make offerings before taking the animals. Then Changing Woman mixed Earth Mirage and Earth Haze together and sprinkled it with water. This she poured on the ground. From the spots of wet earth, sheep and goats sprang up for the People. Then she opened the doors of her house in all four directions. From these, horses of different colors ran to the places Changing Woman had assigned them. There, she said, the People could find them easily. Then she offered the People food to eat while she called the Holy People to assemble. When the Holy People had gathered, the medicine bundle was brought out. The eight-word song was sung in praise of Earth, Sky, Mountain Woman, Water Woman, White Corn, Yellow Corn, Pollen, and Cornbeetle. Talking God and Calling God tested the two brothers on all they had learned and told them to preserve the medicine bundle most carefully. Then, as a final |