The Mythology Of The Navajo Indians

Register to read the introduction… Navajo gods and other supernatural powers are many and varied. Most important among them are a group of anthropomorphic deities, and especially Changing Woman or Spider Woman, the consort of the Sun God, and her twin sons, the Monster Slayers. Other supernatural powers include animal, bird, and reptile spirits, and natural phenomena or wind, weather, light and darkness, celestial bodies, and monsters. Navajo mythology is enormously rich and poetically expressive. (Advameg, Inc. © 2013). In their beliefs all of creation is divided between what they call “Holy People” and “Earth Surface People”. It sounds just about exactly how it’s meant to be. When we think of “holy” we think of supernatural, those that have set a path that should be followed. Earth surface people are those that reside, as it seems, on the Earth. After going through a process of passing through succession of underworlds, the Holy people made it to the present world. They created the first of human creation, a man and a woman and all of the kin to the surface people. They then passed on all of the knowledge that would be necessary for the Earth Surfaces to survive such as: practices and rituals. Once the “holy peoples” job was complete that went on to live in other realms that are above the earth. It is said that they stay in touch on a daily basis with the Earth Surface People in order to stay in complete harmony with them. There are four different practices that we are going to go more in detail with that fall into their religious …show more content…
So a relationship between a female-bodied nadleeh (woman acting as a man) and a woman would not be considered a homosexual act. Now if two men or two male bodied nadleeh got together then they would be considered homosexual.
On the very last page of Navajo Culture research is a diagram and information that describes types of kinship in two different areas. There is two charts that are listed from top of the kinship to bottom of the kinship. This is based off of a research study that was taken place, it was stated that it is more accurate than that of others that have been place out there (A note on regional variation in Navajo Kinship