Navaho Legends by David Matthews
A collection of traditional Navajo myths and oral narratives that explain the people’s cosmology, emergence, and moral order, gathered and presented with ethnographic commentary and variant versions that reflect living oral traditions. The volume includes creation and emergence tales, stories of Changing Woman, the heroic twin brothers who battle monstrous foes, trickster episodes featuring Coyote, and accounts of sacred beings and ceremonies. Through dramatic myth and instructive tale it illuminates Navajo values, ritual practice, and relationships to landscape and community.
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