All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story

05:05 | Feb 24th, 2007

-In this episode: The people discover that Coyote has hidden Big Water Creature's children in his robe. This was what caused the flood. After the babies are returned, one of the boy/girl twins dies....Show More

04:54 | Feb 15th, 2007

-In this episode: The people leave the island. When they are on the far shore, Coyote teaches them that it is probably better if they don't live forever, and that someday each one dies. Poetry written...Show More

04:48 | Feb 14th, 2007

-In this episode: Badger helps dig a burrow through the sky, so that the people can crawl through to the fifth world. They emerge on an island in the middle of a lake. Poetry written and voiced by Jab...Show More

05:22 | Feb 13th, 2007

-In this episode: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Locust spread seven bags of sacred soil on the hilltop. Then they plant a cluster of reeds, which grow together. The people climb inside the reeds, and...Show More

04:39 | Feb 12th, 2007

-In this episode: The peaceful world becomes suddenly chaotic, as all the animals flee in terror, and the people hear of great floods approaching them from all directions. The people gather at the top...Show More

03:56 | Feb 11th, 2007

-In this episode: How Big Water Creature kidnaps two girls, and the Gods help their parents to rescue them; and how Coyote the Trickster sneaks in, and takes Big Water Creature's children away. Poetry...Show More

12:57 | Feb 10th, 2007

-In this episode: How the men and women lived separately; how the men tried to please themselves with deer liver, and the women with long smooth stones; and how they finally came back together again. ...Show More

07:34 | Feb 9th, 2007

-In this episode: The people prosper and give names to the four directions. Then, after a time, First Man and First Woman have a big argument. First Man recruits all the men to join him and cross the ...Show More

06:41 | Feb 8th, 2007

-In this episode: First Woman fashions a penis from turquoise and a vagina from shell. She enlivens these with a medicine cloud and gives them to all the men and women to strengthen the bond between t...Show More

07:18 | Feb 7th, 2007

-In this episode: First Man and First Woman have children. With the help of the Gods, the people plant, they grow, they make useful things, and they learn to hunt. In time, they intermarry with the Mi...Show More