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 =Creation Story =

The Navajo creation story involves three underworlds where important events happened to shape the Fourth World where we now live. According to the Diné, they emerged from three previous underworlds into this, the Fourth, or "Glittering World", through a magic reed.The first people from the other three worlds were not like the people of today. They were animals, insects or masked spirits as depicted in Navajo ceremonies. First Man ('Altsé Hastiin), and First Woman ('Altsé 'Asdzáá), were two of the beings from the First or Black World. First Man was made in the East from the meeting of the White and Black Clouds. First Woman was made in the West from the joining of the Yellow and Blue Clouds. Spider Woman (Na ashje’ii 'Asdzáá), who taught Navajo women how to weave, was also from the First World.

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