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<\/a><\/p>\nCreation Story Poster- Ni\u2019hodilhil First World<\/strong> <\/p>\n On the wands, the beings passed into the Third World. Blue Bird was the first to come through. He found the world was yellow. After Blue Bird, First Man, First Woman, Coyote and one of the insects came. After that, the other beings entered the Yellow World.<\/p>\n The Yellow World was large. Many new things were there. A great river crossed this land from north to south. It was the Female River. Animals in the Yellow world Others in the Yellow World <\/p>\n In this world there were six mountains. These are the mountains that are important to Navajos today.<\/p>\n In the East was\u00a0 Blanco Peak\u00a0 Sisnaajinii, the Standing Black Sash. Its ceremonial name is Yolgaidzil, the Dawn or White Shell Mountain. ln the middle was Huerfano Mesa.\u00a0 Dzilna’odili, the Upper Mountain. It was very sacred, and its name means also the Center Place, and the people moved around it. Its ceremonial name is Ntl’isdzil. Precious Stone or Banded Rock Mountain.<\/p>\n Near this was a cone-shaped mountain called Gobernador Knob,\u00a0 called Chori’i or Dzil na’odilicholi, and it was also a sacred mountain.<\/p>\n Different animals lived around these mountains. Squirrel, Chipmunk, Turkey, Deer, Snake and Lizard lived there. But these animals looked different from animals we see today. They were spirit beings.<\/p>\n The beings were happy in the Yellow World. Then one day something happened. Coyote took Water Monster’s baby. Water Monster was very angry. He was so angry that he decided to make it rain. lt rained and rained. The water rose higher and higher. First Man wondered what to do. He planted a cedar tree. But this did not grow higher than the water. He planted a pine tree. But the pine tree was too short. He planted a male reed. The reed was still too short. Finally, First Man planted a female reed. This reed grew to the sky.<\/p>\n The beings climbed onto the reed. They started to climb up. When they got to the top, they found another world. This was the Fourth, White World. This is the place where all beings live today.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Creation Story Poster Set of Four<\/strong><\/p>\n This poster set illustrates and explains the Creation Narrative in simple, design and text. To Purchase:<\/strong> <\/p>\n Navajo People Website Links:<\/strong> Nihaltsoh –\u00a0The Navajo Yellow World Creation Story Poster- Ni\u2019hodilhil First World Illustrations by Theresa Breznau. \u00a9 2013 Heritage Language Resource Center. All rights reserved To purchase see bottom of page. On the wands, the beings passed into the Third World. Blue Bird was the first to come through. He found the world was yellow. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,474,87,89,88,1076,471,472,473],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-creation-story","tag-coyote","tag-creation-story","tag-first-man-first-woman","tag-four-sacred-mountains","tag-mount-taylor","tag-navajo","tag-nihaltsoh","tag-third-world","tag-yellow-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIllustrations by Theresa Breznau.
\n\u00a9 2013 Heritage Language Resource Center. All rights reserved
\nTo purchase see bottom of page.<\/p>\n
\nThere was another river crossing it from east to west, it was the Male River. This Male River flowed through the Female River and on\u00a0 and the name of this place is tqoalna’osdli, the Crossing of the waters.<\/p>\n
\na. Squirrel
\nb. Chipmunk
\nc. Mice
\nd. Turkey
\ne. Foxes
\nf. Deer
\ng. Spiders
\nh. Lizards
\ni. Water Monster<\/p>\n
\n1. Water Monster
\n2. Turquoise Boy
\n3. While Shell Woman
\n4. Coyote
\n5. Rivers that Cross
\n6. Separation of Sexes<\/p>\nThe Four Sacred Mountains<\/h2>\n
\nIn the South stood Mount Taylor<\/strong> Tsoodzil, the Great Mountain, also called Mountain Tongue. Its ceremonial name is Yodoltizhidzil, the Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain.
\nIn the West stood the San Francisco Peaks\u00a0 Dook’oslid,\u00a0 Its ceremonial name is Dichi’li dzil, the Abalone Shell Mountain.
\nIn the North stood the La Plata Mountains Debe’ntsa, Many Sheep Mountain.
\nIts ceremonial name is Bash’zliinidzil. Obsidian Mountain.<\/p>\nOther Sacred Mountains<\/h2>\n
\nThen the water began to flood. The beings did not know where to go to escape the flood. First Man tried to help them. He told them to come to Blanco Peak. But the water kept rising. It rose higher than the mountain.<\/p>\n
\nThe First World \u201cNihodilhil\u201d (Black World)<\/a><\/h2>\n
Nihodootlizh \u2013 Second World (Blue World)<\/a><\/h2>\n
\u00a0Nihaltsoh -The third World (Yellow World)<\/a><\/h2>\n
\u00a0Nihalgai \u2013\u00a0The Fourth, Glittering or White World<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nEach poster depicts the beings and landmarks associated with that World.
\nIllustrations by Theresa Breznau.
\n17\u201d x 22\u201d laminated on heavy cardstock.
\nSold as a set for $24.00
\nAlso available individually for $6.00 each<\/p>\n
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\nNavajo and Ute Language Resources
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\nBlanding, Utah 8451
\n435 -678 -1230
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