HIS148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Humphreys Peak, Mountain West Conference, Blanca Peak
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Includes squirrels, turkeys, lizards, and deer creatures. Animals presence during the emergency journey implies people are not superior. Meant to live independent of other forms of life. Animals in the navajos origin story have certain characteristics. Do they represent values of the navajo culture. Antics inevitably resulting in problems for others. The coyote plays a similar role in the navajos stories about themselves in the world. When all beings emerge into the present world. They find it covered entirely with water. They manage: in order to come to terms with the monster who controls the water. Four sacred mountains mark the traditional boundaries of navajo country. Sun, moon, stars first appear in sky, day and night come to be. Period during which the first man and first woman arrive. Who is the first man and first woman. Mingling of darkness and dawn at gobernador known. First man and first woman find the baby.
