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Show INTO THE GLITTERING WORLD 5 brought from below and made the sacred mountains. In the east, he placed Dawn Mountain (Sis Naajinii); in the south, Turquoise Mountain (Tsoodzil); in the west, Abalone Shell Mountain (Dook'o'oosffid); and in the north, Jet Mountain (Dibe Ntsaa). In the center, he made a mountain of soft goods or banded rock (Dzil Na'oodiTri). To the east of the center mountain, he placed a mountain of hard goods or jewels (Ch'ooljjh). After the people had gathered, the Yei'ii approached. Black Yei'ii and Water Sprinkler (Toneinilii) each brought a sacred unwounded buckskin (doo k'aa'k'ehii). Talking God (Haashch'eeh yalti'i) carried the two perfect ears of corn given to First Man and First Woman in the First World. One of the buckskins was laid down. On this, Talking God placed the two perfect ears of corn with their tips facing east. Under the corn, he put a white and a yellow eagle feather. Then he covered the corn with the other sacred buckskin and told the people to stand back. The White Wind came from the east; the Yellow Wind, from the west. Both entered between the blankets. While the wind stirred under the buckskins, eight Mirage People came and walked around the blankets. As they did so, the tips of the eagle feathers that stuck out past the edges of the blankets began to move. When the Mirage People had finished walking, the buckskin on the top was removed. There, instead of two ears of corn, lay a man and a woman, the First-Made Man and the First-Made Woman. From them came all of the First People. First Man placed the First-Made Man and the First-Made Woman in the place of honor at the west side of the hogan, opposite the door. There he sat also, with First Woman, First Boy, First Girl, and Coyote. Then First Man assigned places in the hogan to all things made in this world: Earth and Mountain Woman; Zigzag Lightning and Straight Lightning; Male Rain and Female Rain; Dark Cloud and Vegetation; Yellow, White, Blue, Striped, and Many-colored Male and Female Corn; Reflected Red Sunray, Rainbow, and Lightning; Sky, Moon, Sun, Darkness, and Dawn; Monster Slayer and Born For Water; Cornbeetle Girl and Pollen Boy; Happiness and Longlife; Owl and Badger. These were the inner forms of beings that would later live in the Earth-Surface World or Fourth World after the Emergence. Sometime later, corn was planted, and Cornbeetle Girl and Pollen Boy came and gave life to the corn, making it grow. For a time, the People were well fed and happy. But then something happened to change all that. As a result of immoral activity, the |