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NAVAJO CREATION MYTH

The Story of the Emergence

By Hasteen Klah Recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright 1942

Navajo Religion Series Volume I. Santa Fe

 

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Title Page

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

General Introduction

THE STORY OF THE EMERGENCE

NAVAJO CEREMONIAL SONGS

HOZHONJI—BLESSING CHANT

SANDPAINTINGS FROM THE HOZHONJI—BLESSING CHANT *

NOTES ON APPROXIMATE LOCATIONS WHERE NAVAJO CEREMONIES ARE NOW GIVEN

GLOSSARY OF NAVAJO CREATION MYTH

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Adapted from www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm

*Note: The copy from which this electronic version was produced was a black and white copy of an original. Unfortunately, there are 15 full-color reproductions of sand-paintings in the original which could not be taken from that copy. Also, there were captions to the text in the margins throughout the book that are not reproduced in this version.

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