They gathered as many pieces of tsésǫʼ, rock-star mica, as they could find, and put them on a blanket.
The humans in this creation story have far more power than their counterparts in Genesis.
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After the people had all emerged into the Fourth, or White World, they saw the water continuing to rise in the Third World beneath them. Big Water Creature pushed her head through the opening in the reed. Her curly hair floated on the water, and lightning flashed from her black horn and her yellow horn. First Man asked Big Water Creature why she had come. She said nothing. But the Coyote named First Angry cam
The concept of entering better and better realities to reach a "perfected" destination reminds me of the hozho philosophy. Through entering into better and better realities, the flaws of the last can (hopefully) be cleansed.
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Spider Man then said, “Now you know all that I have named for you. It is yours to work with and to use following your own wishes. But from now on when a baby girl is born to your tribe you shall go and find a spider web woven at the mouth of some hole; you must take it and rub it on the baby’s hand and arm. Thus, when she grows up she will weave, and her fingers and arms will not tire from the weaving.”
It is interesting to see a justification, no matter how loose, for the gendered division of labor, here.
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The first world was small, and black as soot.
The concept of earth beginning as a dark, empty world is rather similar to the Christian concept of how the Earth was formed in several days from nothingness to fullness.
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hózhó was given to the Navajo by the female deity
Obviously, some of the occasional matriarchal aspects of Native religion and society, as spoken about in the Crash Course video, differentiate Native ideas from Western ones, and this female deity is at odds with the Christian God's usual associative masculinity.
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“beauty, perfection, harmony, goodness, normality, success, wellbeing, blessedness, order, and ideal.”
Anselm's argument concerning God's existence, to paraphrase, was that "there seems to exist a scale by which objects exist, imperfect to perfect. If this scale is a real, quantifiable scale, then there must exist a highest level of perfection, and that level of perfection must be God himself." Obviously, this scale isn't real, but hope of action and "doing good" in one's lifetime leading to a higher perfection in heaven seems similar hozho's concepts regarding "beauty, perfection, harmony, etc."
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