Share All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story
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By Jabez L. Van Cleef
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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.
-In this episode: The people leave the island. When they are on the far shore, Coyote teaches them that it is probably better if they don't live forever, and that someday each one dies. Poetry written and voiced by Jabez L. Van Cleef.
-In this episode: Badger helps dig a burrow through the sky, so that the people can crawl through to the fifth world. They emerge on an island in the middle of a lake. Poetry written and voiced by Jabez L. Van Cleef.
-In this episode: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Locust spread seven bags of sacred soil on the hilltop. Then they plant a cluster of reeds, which grow together. The people climb inside the reeds, and are lifted away from the rising waters. Badger helps dig a burrow
-In this episode: The peaceful world becomes suddenly chaotic, as all the animals flee in terror, and the people hear of great floods approaching them from all directions. The people gather at the top of a hill to escape the water. They plant different kinds of trees,
-In this episode: How Big Water Creature kidnaps two girls, and the Gods help their parents to rescue them; and how Coyote the Trickster sneaks in, and takes Big Water Creature's children away. Poetry written and voiced by Jabez L. Van Cleef.
-In this episode: How the men and women lived separately; how the men tried to please themselves with deer liver, and the women with long smooth stones; and how they finally came back together again. Poetry written and voiced by Jabez L. Van Cleef.
-In this episode: The people prosper and give names to the four directions. Then, after a time, First Man and First Woman have a big argument. First Man recruits all the men to join him and cross the river. The men and the women decide to live separately. Poetry w
-In this episode: First Woman fashions a penis from turquoise and a vagina from shell. She enlivens these with a medicine cloud and gives them to all the men and women to strengthen the bond between themselves. Coyote and Badger are born from the union of earth and
-In this episode: First Man and First Woman have children. With the help of the Gods, the people plant, they grow, they make useful things, and they learn to hunt. In time, they intermarry with the Mirage People. Poetry written and voiced by Jabez L. Van Cleef.
The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.
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