Editing Diné Bahaneʼ (section)

==== 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>