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Show INTO THE GLITTERING WORLD 13 Monster Slayer, Born For Water, and Changing Bear Woman From Monster Way (Nayee'e) and Upward-Reaching Way (Ha'nilneehii) Changing Woman was living at Huerfano Mountain with First Man and First Woman. One day she went out to gather firewood. She met a handsome and beautifully dressed stranger who told her to make a circle of branches with an opening facing east. She was to spend her nights there. Changing Woman did as the stranger had asked. For four nights the stranger came to her. She learned this on the fourth night, when she awoke early enough to see him leave. When she looked down, she found a perfect piece of turquoise on the ground next to her. Because of the secret that stirred inside her, Changing Woman grew more restless every day. One afternoon she decided to go down to the spring to bathe herself. There, with the light of the moon shining on her, she washed her whole body. As the moonlit water entered her, she imagined that the stranger stood over her. Yet, when she opened her eyes, she found only a perfect whiteshell. Nine days later, two boys were born. The elder was named Monster Slayer (Naye'neezgani). The younger was called Born For Water (Tobajishchini). The elder brother had been fathered by the Sun, the younger by the Moon. The Twins were placed on Sunrays and Rainbows, which carried the boys to all the sacred mountains throughout Navajo country. When they returned, they had become young men. The Twins then began to ask Changing Woman who their father was, but she did not tell them. After they had asked First Man four times, he told them that their father was the Sun. "You should visit him," he said. "Perhaps he will give you special weapons to kill the Monsters. That would make the world safe for the People." Monster Slayer and Born For Water were magically transported by First Man to the home of Spider Woman. She fed them pollen and cornmeal for strength. She also gave them each an eagle plume (Liinaa bits'os) and taught them prayers and chants. These would protect them from the obstacles they would meet on the journey. Using these gifts, the boys safely passed the Moving Sand Wall (Sei'aad), which buried all who tried to climb it. They also escaped the Crashing Rocks (Tse'ahididil), a canyon whose walls came together to crush all that tried to pass through it. The boys soon approached a lake that Spider Woman had warned them |