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The Navajo Origin Legend Analysis
In the short story from The Navajo Origin Legend it starts out with the Navajos washing up for the ceremony. The women dried themselves with yellow cornmeal and the men dried off with white cornmeal. As the wind starts to blow, mirage people come out of the wind and two law down buckskins, one lays down two ears of corn and one lays down eagle feathers. The wind blows and the white ear of corn turns into a man and the yellow ear turns into a woman.
The gods had the people make an enclosure for the 2 people and they lived together as husband and

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