veral interrelated legends about the creation of the different elements of the universe and present world like the sun, the moon, the animals, I want to focus on the creation of the human being.
             On one hand, in the Navaho mythology I found several versions of the origin of the human being. The most common and popular one I found starts with the Mirage People who emerged from three previous underworlds into this, the fourth, or "Glittering World". These first people were not like the people of today. They were animals, insects or masked spirits. They, with the help of White Body, god of this world; Blue Body, the sprinkler; Yellow Body; and Black Body, the god of fire, created, from two ears of corn, the first Man ('Altsé Hastiin), and the first Woman ('Altsé 'Asdzáá), only using a sacred buckskin, and the power of the wind. Once, the creation was done, the people began to arrange their world creating the sun and the moon in the sky and placing the stars in an orderly way. Unfortunately, the evil monsters appeared and began to kill all the people. Like a miracle, Estsanatlehi, the Changing Woman, was born of darkness and dawn on top of Spruce Mountain, wrapped in clouds and surrounded by rainbows. She grew up in 18 days, married the Sun and bore twins. They were known as "Monster Slayer" and "Child-Born-of-Water". The twins traveled to their father the Sun who gave them weapons of lighting bolts to fight the dreaded monsters. After the twin
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