Editing Diné Bahaneʼ (section)

==== 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>