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Here's another tale, it's of creation, try and see the truth and the not
truth?
The first world, Ni'hodilqil, is very dark. It has four clouds;
one black,
one white,
one blue,
and one yellow cloud.
The-Great-Coyote-Who-Was-Formed-in-the-Water was born from an egg and knew
all about the sky and the water below the surface.
First Man, Atse'hastqin, was formed in the east when the white and black cloud met, white corn was
also made at this time.
First Woman, Atse'esdza , was formed in the west
when the blue and yellow clouds met, yellow corn was also made at thistime.
Man is dawn and the giver of life.
Woman is darkness and death.
The First Woman burned turquoise to make a fire, man used a crystal.
It took three times but First Man finally found the turquoise fire.
It also took First Woman three times to find the crystal fire.
Eventually First Woman went to First Man and they started to live together.
Then came Atse'hashke, Coyote.
After him about eight more beings formed and the
first world became to crowded and the people began to fight.
The second world was blue.
Everything that was there was blue; blue jays,
blue birds, and all other blue feathered beings.
The Swallow People were there too.
There was fighting and Killing.
So the First Four found an opening and went to the Yellow World.
In the third world there were two rivers and six mountains.
One river ran north and south, this is the Female River.
The other river ran east and west, this is the Male River.
The Coyote stole two children from the Water Buffalo.
Because the Water Buffalo didn't know this, she started to flood
the Earth. The water level got so high that the people had to climb themountains to get to the forth world.
In the fourth world, some call it the White World,
the Coyote gave back the male child.
The male child was known as the Turquoise Boy.
He became known as the Black Cloud or Male Rain, he would bring the thunder and the lighting.
The Coyote kept the girl. She would be known as the Blue, Yellow, and White Clouds or Female Rain.
She would be the gentle rain that would moisten the earth and help them to live.
After the Water Buffalo received her boy back she disappeared and with her did the water.
After the water went away there was a new being, it was the
badger. He was formed when the Yellow Cloud touched the Earth.
After this the Yellow Cloud turned into a sunbeam. First Man didn't like the fourth
world.
So he planted the big Female Reed and it grew to the top of
the fourth world.
The First Woman and Man led the way to the fifth world. They emerged through a lake surrounded by four mountains.
First Man and First Woman dressed the Mountain Lion and the Wolf. They divided the people into two groups.
The first group was ask to choose their chief. They chose the
Mountain Lion even though they thought they chose the Wolf because of their apparance.
The other group had the Wolf for their chief.
After the fifth world was put in order the First Man made a hogan.
Then the other people made their hogans.
In First Man's and First Woman's hogan
lived two children.
They were not their's but the children of the Turquoise
Boy and the White Shell Girl.
The Holy Ones asked the Turquoise Boy to
enter the great, perfect turquoise that was to become the sun;
and they asked the White Shell Girl to enter the great, perfect, white shell that was to become the moon.
The Turquoise Boy had a whistle with twelve holes.
Each hole represented a different month.
The White Shell Girl has a whistle.
She blew's her whistle to move the tides.
There are two more worlds above ours.
One is the Spirits of the Living Things and the other is the Place of Melting into One.
There is alot more to this tale, maybe I tell how Coyote, in his anger, made the Ma'iio, "The one that roams".
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