Editing Diné Bahaneʼ (section)

=== The Coming of Monsters ===
In the Third World, there was a time when men and women had lived apart for a long time.  During that time, some women had used animal horns or long stones or bird feathers for sex.  Now, in the Fourth World, some of those women were pregnant. One woman who had used an antelope horn gave birth to a child with no head.  The people held a council and decided that this baby would be abandoned.  It was left to die in a gully.  But it lived and grew to become {{spell-nv|Déélgééd}}, the Horned Monster.

A woman who had used an eagle's feather for sex gave birth to a round, headless child with feathered shoulders.  A council was held, and it was decided that this baby too should be abandoned.  It was left in an alkali pit.  But it lived, and grew to become {{spell-nv|Tsé Nináhálééh}}, Monster Eagle.<ref>Zolbrod, p. 95</ref>  It made its home on ''{{spell-nv|Tséteʼiská}},''<ref name="sp?">''<u>Note:</u> the spelling according to modern orthography could not be found and the meaning seems uncertain or lost.''</ref> a peak beyond La Plata Mountains.<ref name="Hastiin Tlo'tsi Hee, p. 39">Hastiin Tlo'tsi Hee, p. 39</ref>

A woman who had used an elongated stone for sex gave birth to a headless child with hard skin and a pointed neck.  The people met in council and decided that this baby should be abandoned in a fissure in a cliff.  They placed the child and closed the fissure with rocks.  But the child lived and grew to become {{spell-nv|Tsé dah Hódziiłtáłii}}, The Monster Who Kicks People Down the Cliff.<ref>Zolbrod, p. 96</ref>  It made its home at a place called ''Knol ghi nee,''<ref name="sp?"/> beyond the Carrizos Mountains.<ref name="Hastiin Tlo'tsi Hee, p. 39"/>

A woman who had skinned a sour cactus and used it for sex gave birth to twins, headless creatures with no limbs.  They had two depressions at the top that looked like eyes.  The people gathered and decided that these infants had to be abandoned.  They threw them as far as they could.  But the twins found shelter in brush and survived.  They grew to become {{spell-nv|Binááʼ yee Aghání}}, the Monsters That Kill with Their Eyes.<ref>Zolbrod, p. 97</ref>

One monster came about in a different way.  A woman named Loose Running Woman<ref>Fishler, p. 54</ref> went off alone in the direction of the sunrise.  After defecating, she used a smooth pebble from the river to clean herself.  She placed the warm stone in her genitals just as {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}, the Sun, rose above the horizon.  Seeing this, the Sun sent a ray into her.  In only nine days she gave birth to a large child.  Having no husband, and not knowing who the father of the child was, she abandoned the child in a rocky place.  But {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} knew that the baby was his, and he protected it from afar but never visited it. The child grew to be large and powerful and very angry.  It was called {{spell-nv|Yéʼiitsoh}}, Big Giant, by the people.<ref>Haile, p. 79</ref>

The monsters hid along paths, and killed and devoured travelers.  They killed many people, and the people began to live in fear.

==== The Monster Slayer Twins ====
Most of the people had been killed.  First Man said, "Perhaps the Holy People will help us."  In the morning, he saw a dark cloud covering the top of {{spell-nv|Chʼóolʼį́ʼí}}, the Great Spruce Mountain.  In the night he saw a fire on the mountain.  He said to First Woman, "Someone is there.  I must go to them."  "No," she said.  "There are many monsters between here and there.  It is not safe for you."  The following day the dark cloud remained on the mountain, and at night the fire appeared a second time.  This happened the third day as well.  On the fourth day, First Man said, "I must go.  I believe there is a Holy Person on the mountain who can help us."  He set out for {{spell-nv|Chʼóolʼį́ʼí}}.  As he walked, he sang: I am {{spell-nv|Áłtsé Hastiin}}, and I head for {{spell-nv|Chʼóolʼį́ʼí}} in pursuit of old age and happiness.  In pursuit of old age and happiness I follow the lightning and approach the place where it strikes.  In pursuit of old age and happiness I follow the rainbow and approach the place where it touches the earth.  In pursuit of old age and happiness I follow the dark cloud's trail and approach the place where it is thickest.  In pursuit of old age and happiness I follow the scent of the rain, and approach the place where the lines of rain are darkest.

At the very summit of {{spell-nv|Chʼóolʼį́ʼí}}, he heard the cry of an infant and the crash of lightning, the pouring of rain, and he saw the tip of a rainbow with intense colors in front of the black sky.  Suddenly the rain stopped and the sky became light.  Where he had heard the cry of a baby there was a turquoise figure of a girl lying on the ground.  First Man picked up the turquoise girl and carried it home with him.

==== The Birth of Changing Woman ====
Two days later First Man and First Woman were awakened very early in the morning by the sound "Wu'hu'hu'hu'."  They knew it was {{spell-nv|Haashch'ééłti'í}}, Talking God.  He told them they must return to the top of {{spell-nv|Chʼóolʼį́ʼí}} with the turquoise figure in twelve days.[[File:Talking God.jpg|400px|thumb|alt=Image of mask of Haashchʼééłtiʼí from Matthews 1902 text|Mask representing {{spell-nv|Haashchʼééłtiʼí}}, Talking God, used in [[Kléjê Hatál|Night Chant Ceremony]], recorded by Matthews in 1902]]

When they reached a level spot just below the summit of{{spell-nv| Chʼóolʼį́ʼí}}, {{spell-nv|Haashchʼééłtiʼí}} was there waiting for them.  {{spell-nv|Haashchʼééʼooghaan}}, House God, was there. {{spell-nv|Tó Neinilí}}, Water Sprinkler, was there. With them was {{spell-nv|Níłchʼi}}, the Wind.  {{spell-nv|Haashchʼééłtiʼí}} lay a perfect buckskin on the ground with its head facing the west.  On the buckskin First Man lay the turquoise figure of a girl with her head to the west.  Then {{spell-nv|Haashchʼééłtiʼí}} placed another perfect buckskin over the figure, with its head facing East.  The Holy People began to sing the sacred song of {{spell-nv|Hózhǫ́ǫ́jí Sin}}, and {{spell-nv|Níłchʼi}}, the Wind entered between the buckskin blankets.  The upper blanket was removed, and beneath it was a living baby girl.  Her name was {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}}, [[Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé|Changing Woman]].<ref>In some versions, including Zolbrod (p. 179), Changing Woman and White Shell Woman both emerge through this ceremony, and both subsequently  become mothers of the twins.  Hastiin Tlo'tse Hee (pp. 72–73) mentions only White Shell Woman; Yazzie (1971) mentions only Changing Woman.  The version here follows Yazzie due to the greater consistency of the account.</ref> The Holy People told First Man and First Woman to take her to their home and raise her as their daughter.

First Woman and First man carried {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}} to their hogan, and First Man made a cradle board and tied her in it. "Now she will be my daughter," he said.  First woman took the baby and breathed on her four times. "Now," she said, "she will be my daughter."  At the end of the second day the baby laughed for the first time. The Coyote named {{spell-nv|Áłtsé Hashké}} arrived and said, "I was told that my grandchild laughed for the first time." First Woman took charcoal and gave it to the Coyote saying: "This is the only thing that lasts." He painted his nose with it and said, "I shall know all things. I shall live long by it."  Satisfied with the gift, he departed. Since then persons always receive a gift when a baby laughs for the first time, and the First Laugh Ceremony is performed.<ref>Hastiin Tlo'tsi Hee, p. 73</ref>

By the thirteenth day, {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}} had become a young woman, and on that day she said to First Woman, "Something unusual has passed through me." First woman said, "That is your first race, {{spell-nv|kinaashdaah}}." They covered the floor of the hogan with blankets, and Changing Woman lay on them face down. First Man pulled her hair down, and shaped her face, and dressed her in beautiful goods, beads, bracelets, and earrings, and tied her hair with a strip of perfect buckskin. Then First Man and First Woman stepped outside the hogan and told {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}} to run her first race around a cedar tree and return, from east to west, as the sun does. When she returned, they invited all the people to a sing over her in the hogan called {{spell-nv|Hooghan Hotłʼeztsoos}}, Changeable House, on the mountain called {{spell-nv|Dził Náʼodiłii}} four days later. A great crowd gathered in the evening of the fourth day. A sweet corn cake was made from different colored corn meal sweetened with yeast. The Night Chant was sung, and in the morning the men received some of the maiden's cake as a gift for their chants, and {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}}, Changing Woman sat in the back of the hogan as gifts were piled in front of her. In this way the First Race of every young woman should be celebrated.<ref>Hastiin Tlo'tsi Hee, p. 75</ref>

==== Birth of the Twins ====
Soon after that, Changing Woman wished for a mate. Every morning when the sun rose she lay on her back until noon, her head to the west and her feet to the east.  At noon she went to the spring. She lay under the ledge and let spring water drip over her body. This took place each day for four days. On the fourth day, she heard a sound behind her and turned and saw a young man on a great white horse with black eyes. It had a long white mane, and pranced above the ground and not on the earth itself. The bridle and the saddle were white. The young man's moccasins and leggings were also white. The rider spoke: "You lay towards me each morning until noon. When I am half over the center of the earth, you go to the spring. Your wish could not have two meanings. Go home and tell your father to build a brush hogan to the south of your home. Fill a basket with meal and set it in the hogan. Make a line of pollen from east to west across the basket on top of the meal. Make a line of pollen from north to south drawn around the basket. You and your father must sit there late into the night. He will then go home to his wife and you must stay there alone."

Changing Woman returned home and told what had happened to her parents.  First Man said that it could not be true, but First Woman said that it was indeed the message of a Holy Being and they must obey. And so First Man and {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}} prepared the hogan and the basket and waited long into the night. Finally First Man returned home. When Changing Woman returned home in the morning, First Man asked her at once: "Who came last night?" The girl said, "No one came, but some of the meal has been taken."  The same thing happened the second night, and the third. On the morning after the fourth night, the girl told First Man, "I saw no one, but someone touched me, and I was moved."<ref>According to Hastiin Tlo'tsi Hee (p. 77), this story is told in a chant during wedding ceremonies, which make use of the meal basket and pollen.  Because First Woman was not invited to the brush hogan, the groom must not look upon his wife's mother during the ceremony.</ref>  Four days later, {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}} said, "Mother, something moves within me." First Woman answered, "Daughter, that must be your baby moving."

On the ninth day, Changing Woman felt her birth labor begin. Talking God appeared, carrying a rope of sunbeam. Water Sprinkler the Rain God appeared carrying a rope of rainbow. Saying nothing, the two beings gave one end of each rope to Changing Woman and silently bid her pull them with each spasm of labor. This began the custom of giving a rope to a woman who is in labor.<ref>Zolbrod, p. 183.</ref> A baby boy emerged, and Talking God took it aside and washed it, and severed its cord. A second baby boy emerged, and Water Sprinkler took it aside and washed it and severed its cord.

==== Preparation of the Twins ====
After four days, {{spell-nv|Haashchʼééłtiʼí}}, Talking God, and {{spell-nv|Tó Neinilí}}, Water Sprinkler, returned.  The twins had already grown into big boys.  "{{spell-nv|Shinálí}} (Grandsons)," Talking God said, "We have come to run a race with you."  "We will see how fit you have become," said Water Sprinkler.  They agreed to race around the mountain.  The boys ran fast, and the two Holy People ran slower.  But soon the boys became tired and the Holy People came up behind them and began taunting them and whipping them with switches of mountain mahogany.  As they approached home, Talking God and Water Sprinkler ran past them and won the race.  "We will return in four days to race again," they said, and departed.  In the evening, the boys were sore and tired. {{spell-nv|Níłchʼi}}, the Wind came to them and said, "Practice each day and grow stronger."  In four days, Talking God and Water Sprinkler returned, and the four raced again around the mountain.  It was a faster pace, but just as before, Talking God and Water Sprinkler ran just behind the twins and whipped them with switches.  Again the Holy People said they would return in four days to race again.  And again in the evening {{spell-nv|Niłchʼi}} came and encouraged them and urged them to train.  Each day the boys trained, and in the third race, Talking God and Water Sprinkler no longer whipped the twins, but had to run their strongest to win the race at the end.  Four days later they returned to race a final time.  Again, the boys started very fast, but this time they did not tire and slow their pace.  They led the whole way and won the race.  "Well done, {{spell-nv|Shinálí}}," said Talking God and Water Sprinkler.  "You have grown into what we wanted you to become. Now you can serve well those who have nurtured you."<ref>Zolbrod, pp. 184–187</ref>

The twins came to Changing Woman, {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}}, and asked, "Mother, who is our father?"  "You have no father," she said.  "We must have a father," replied the twins.  "We need to know who he is."  "Your father is a round cactus, then," said Changing Woman.  "Be still."<ref>Zolbrod, pp. 187–188</ref>

First Man made bows and arrows for the twins, and they traveled to the south to hunt.  They saw a large black bird on a tree, and tried to hit it with an arrow, but it flew away.  When they told Changing Woman this, she said, "That was Raven, and he may be a spy for {{spell-nv|Tsé Nináhálééh}}, the Monster Bird, who devours our people.  Do not go there again."  The following day the boys took their bows and headed west.  They saw a large black bird with a red head, and tried to kill it, but it flew away.  When they told Changing Woman this, she said, "That was Vulture.  He may be a spy for {{spell-nv|Tsédah Hódziiłtáłii}}, the Monster that Kicks People Down Cliffs.  Do not go there again."  The next day they boys traveled north, and there they saw a black and white bird with a piercing voice.  They tried to shoot it with their arrows, but it flew away.  When they told their mother, she said, "That was Magpie.  He is a spy for {{spell-nv|Binááʼ yee Aghání}}, the Monster Who Kills With His Eyes.  If he sees you he will paralyze you with his eyes and peck you to pieces."  Changing Woman cried, "Now the monsters know about you, and they will come to kill you.  You must stay inside."

The next morning Changing Woman climbed a hill.  Looking in the distance she saw many monsters approaching from the south and from the west and from the north.  She made four sacred hoops.  The white one she threw to the east.  The blue one she threw to the south. The yellow one she threw to the west.  The black one she threw to the north.  At once a strong wind began to circle the hogan.  "The wind is too strong for the monsters to enter," she told her sons.  We will be safe for one day.  But tomorrow the power will be gone."  At night, the twins spoke softly to one another.  "The monsters are coming for us," they said.  "We must leave so the others will be safe."  Before dawn, they left and ran down the holy path to the east.<ref>Zolbrod, pp. 189–195</ref>

==== The Journey to the Sun ====
By daybreak the twins were approaching the sacred mountain called {{spell-nv|Dził Náʼoodiłii}}.  They saw smoke rising from the ground, and saw that it came from an underground chamber with a ladder extending.  When they looked down into the entrance they saw an old woman sitting before a small fire.  It was {{spell-nv|Naʼashjéʼii Asdzą́ą́}}, Spider Woman.  "Enter, {{spell-nv|shiyáázh}} (my sons)," she said in a raspy voice. "Who are you and why do you walk on Atiin diyinii, the trail of the rainbow?"  The boys entered.  "We do not know who we are, and we do not know where we are going," said the twins.  "We are fleeing for our lives."  "You must tell me more," said Spider Woman.  "{{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}}, Changing Woman, is our mother, and we flee {{spell-nv|Naayééʼ}}, the Alien Monsters," said the boys.  "You are welcome here, and you can learn much from me," said Spider Woman.  "But you must tell me more."  "We are yátashkii, raised without a father," the twins said.  "Perhaps our father is a round cactus.  We follow the Holy Trail because the monsters will destroy us if they can."

{{spell-nv|Naʼashjéʼii Asdzą́ą́}}, Spider Woman, stood and extended her arms. "I will tell you who your father is and how to go to him," she said, and she gestured to the first twin to sit on a chair of obsidian and to the second twin to sit on a chair of turquoise.  She gave them food.  Then she said, "Your father is {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}, the Sun.  His dwelling is far to the east.  The way is long and dangerous.  Many monsters live between here and there.  And your father may try to harm you."  "Tell us how to go there," said the twins.  "You must cross four dangerous places," said Spider Woman. You must pass the rocks that crush all travelers.  You must cross the reeds that cut travelers to pieces.  You must cross between the cane cactuses that cut travelers to shreds.  Then you must pass the boiling sands that burn travelers to fine ashes. Beyond those four points no ordinary creature can pass.  But I will give you a talisman that will help you." Saying this, she handed the boys the sacred {{spell-nv|naayééʼ atsʼos}}, a hoop fashioned from the life feathers of monster eagles.  "Treat this charm carefully and use it correctly," she said.  "As you face your enemies, stare at them without fear, and extend the {{spell-nv|naayééʼ atsʼos}} towards them.  Then repeat this song:
"Rub your feet with pollen and rest them. Rub your hands with pollen and rest them. Rub your body with pollen and lie at rest. Rub your head with pollen and put your mind to rest.  Then truly your feet become pollen.  Your hands become pollen. Your body becomes pollen.  Your head becomes pollen. Your spirit will then become pollen.  Your voice will then become pollen.  All of you is as pollen is. And what pollen is, that is what peace is. The trail ahead is now a beautiful trail. Long life is ahead.  Happiness is ahead."  "Now," she said, "You are ready to go on. You have the power that you need. Walk in beauty."<ref>Zolbrod, pp. 196–199.</ref>

The twins continued east on the Trail of the Rainbow until they came to a narrow pass between two high cliffs.  The cliffs pulled apart as they approached.  They walked quickly to the opening and stopped suddenly, and the cliffs slammed together in front of them.  "We are the children of {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}, the Sun," the twins called. We go to him with a message from Spider Woman."  "Tell us the message," called a voice.  The boys held out the naayééʼ atsʼos and sang the song Spider Woman had taught them.  The cliffs parted, and the twins passed safely between them.  Next they came to the slashing reeds, and again they held out the {{spell-nv|naayééʼ atsʼos}} and sang the holy song, and passed safely through.  They came next to the cane cactuses, {{spell-nv|Hosh Ditsáhiitsoh}}, which sprang to life as they approached.  Again with the {{spell-nv|naayééʼ atsʼos}} and the song of Spider Woman they passed through safely.  At last they came to {{spell-nv|Séítʼáád}}, the Boiling Dunes, which began to swirl and boil when they approached.  "We must know who you are and where you come from and where you are going and to what purpose," roared the dunes.  "We are the children of {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}, the Sun," the twins called. We come from {{spell-nv|Dził Náʼoodiłii}}. We go to our father with a message from Spider Woman."  They held out the {{spell-nv|naayééʼ atsʼos}}, and sang the song of Spider Woman, and the dunes subsided.  "Continue on," the dunes said.  "Long life is ahead. Happiness is ahead." To the east the twins saw the turquoise dwelling of the Sun.<ref>Zolbrod pp. 200–205</ref>

==== Encounter with The Sun ====
The twins entered the house of the Sun before {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} had completed his journey across the sky.  They saw a woman sitting against the western wall, and they saw two handsome young men, {{spell-nv|Iiʼni Łizhinii}}, Black Thunder, and {{spell-nv|Iiʼni Dootłʼizhii}}, Blue Thunder. No one spoke to them.  "We are from {{spell-nv|Dził Náʼoodiłii}}," the twins said. "Our mother is {{spell-nv|Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé}}, Changing Woman, and we have been told that {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}, the Sun, is our father.  We have followed the Holy Trail to seek his help."  The woman remained silent.  Black Thunder and Blue Thunder approached the twins, and wrapped four blankets around them.  They wrapped them in the blanket of red dawn, and the blanket of blue daylight, and the blanket of yellow evening, and the blanket of black darkness.  Then Black Thunder and Blue Thunder lifted the bundled twins and lay them high on a shelf.

After a while the twins heard the Sun enter.  He removed his glowing hot disk from his back and hung it on the wall.  "Who has come here today?" he asked the woman.  She did not answer.  "From above I saw two strangers come here," said {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}.  "Where are they?"  The woman remained silent.  "I know that two strangers are here," said {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}, "And I demand to know where they are."  "Two young men did come here," said the woman, "and they claim they are your sons.  You have promised me that I am the only woman you see.  So whose sons are these?" and she went to the bundle and pulled on the blankets.  The twins fell to the floor, and at once grasped the hoop of feathers that Spider Woman had given them.  {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} the Sun said, "I will see if you are my sons," and he seized them at once and hurled them against the sharp spikes of white shell on the eastern wall of his house.  The twins, holding the {{spell-nv|naayééʼ atsʼos}}, bounced back unharmed.  The Sun seized them again and hurled them against the turquoise spikes on his southern wall.  Again they held the {{spell-nv|naayééʼ atsʼos}} and bounced back unharmed.  "You must survive two more tests," said {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}.  He took them outside where there was a great sweathouse, and he started a fire to heat the four large rocks within it.  While he did this, {{spell-nv|Níłchʼi}}, the Wind, came up to the twins and whispered "You must dig a tunnel to the outside and hide in it after you have answered his question."  The twins dug the tunnel while the Sun prepared the fire, and hid its opening with a stone.  The Sun then commanded them to enter the sweatlodge.  After a while {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} said, "Is it hot in there?"  "Yes," answered the twins, and then they hid in the tunnel they had dug.  {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} suddenly poured a great quantity of water through the hole in the top of the sweatlodge, and when it hit the hot rocks they exploded and hot steam hissed.  After a while the twins crawled back into the sweatlodge.  {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} called, "Is it hot in there?" expecting to get no answer.  But the twins answered, "Not so hot as before."  The Sun opened the door.  "Perhaps you truly are my sons," he said. "Come inside, and we will smoke."

He turned and entered his house.  As he did, {{spell-nv|Níłchʼi}}, the Wind, came up beside the twins.  "The tobacco is poisonous," he whispered.  "The spittle of {{spell-nv|Wóóseekʼidii}}, the spiny caterpillar will protect you."  At once the twins saw a spiny caterpillar on the path, and took some of its spittle into their mouths.  Inside, {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}, the Sun, brought forth a turquoise pipe from a high shelf on his eastern wall and lit it with the red sun disk.  He puffed on it himself, and then passed it to the twins, who each puffed on it themselves.  "What sweet tobacco," said the twins.  Seeing this, {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} the Sun said, "Truly you are my sons. Now tell me why you have come."  "Father," they said, "we have come because {{spell-nv|Naayééʼ}}, the Alien Monsters, are killing all our people.  {{spell-nv|Yéʼiitsoh}} the Big Giant devours our people.  {{spell-nv|Déélgééd}}, the Horned Monster, devours them.  {{spell-nv|Tsé Nináhálééh}}, the Bird Monster, devours them, and so does {{spell-nv|Binááʼ yee Aghání}}, who kills with his eyes.  Give us weapons so that we may destroy {{spell-nv|Yéʼiitsoh}} and the others."

{{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}} looked in all four directions and saw that the woman was not in the house.  Then he said, "I will help you.  But {{spell-nv|Yéʼiitsoh}}, the Big Giant, is also my son.  I will give you weapons so that you may fight the monsters.  But I am the one who will strike the first blow when you fight against {{spell-nv|Yéʼiitsoh}} the Big Giant.  I must do that myself." Then he gave the twins helmets and shirts of hard flint scales, and {{spell-nv|atsiniltłʼish kʼaaʼ}}, the chain lightning arrows, and {{spell-nv|atsoolaghał kʼaaʼ}}, the sheet lightning arrows, and {{spell-nv|shá bitłʼóól kʼaaʼ}}, the deadly sunbeam arrows.  And to each he gave {{spell-nv|béésh doolghasii}}, the stone knife with the hard blade, and {{spell-nv|hatsoiiłhał}}, the stone knife with the broad blade.

When the Sun left on his journey across the top of the sky the next morning, he took the twins with him.  At noon they came to {{spell-nv|Yágháhookááʼ}}, the hole at the top of the sky.  "Now show me where you live," said the Sun.  With the help of {{spell-nv|Níłchʼi}}, the Wind, the twins, pointed out the four sacred mountains of the four directions, and {{spell-nv|Dził Náʼoodiłii}}, the Travelers' Circle Mountain, near the center.  "We live near there," they said.  "All that you have told me I now know to be true, my sons," said {{spell-nv|Jóhonaaʼéí}}.  "You will succeed against the Monsters, and in your war against them you will make the final passage from boyhood to manhood."  Then he sent down a streak of lightning onto the top of {{spell-nv|Tsoodził}}, the Blue Bead Mountain that was the home of {{spell-nv|Yéʼiitsoh}}, the Big Giant, and the twins slid down it.<ref>Zolbrod, pp. 20–215; Hastiin Tlo'tsi Hee, pp. 78–87.</ref>