The liberation of wild animals

Before humans arrived, the animals had already been released. Before emigrating to the southwest from Canada, the Navajo were hunters.

Before the creation of humans, the Holy People gathered in the sweat pavilion to discuss how to find all the hunting animals that had disappeared. No one had witnessed the arrival of a dark and mysterious figure into the room. They saw her put on the skin of a horn and fly.

A plan was planned to recover the animals: turn one of them into a puppy and allow the black horn to take it away. The Cuervo grabbed the Dog and led him to the Borde Hill, where the Black God resides, to whom all the hunting animals belong, where their dwellings are located.

The pig-spin, who had a turquoise stick to remove the fire and open the door, was the doorkeeper of the house of the Black God. The Dog struck the door with his stick, and there he saw animals scattered all over the place: the Horn, who disguised himself as the Black God, had gathered them. All the animals fled when they saw the door open.

According to legend, when the first four deer crossed the door, the Dog touched their legs to produce a smell and, as the other animals passed, scratched their fist with the wind to warn them of the smells, which gave rise to the beast's ability to detect the presence of someone far away.

The progenitor of the eagle

An Eskimo legend

An esquimal hunter was so hungry that he shot an eagle to feed himself. However, when he returned home, he felt so bad that he had taken the life of the animal that he cut it off and placed it in a place of honor. Every time he brought some food home, he gave the eagle the first bite.

One day, a twenty-one lost the hunter. Two men found him waiting for the storm and took him to his village. The men wore sticks with feathers. The hunter found a woman dressed in black in the village. He immediately realized that she was the mother of the eagle he had killed. The eagle's mother told him that he had treated his son well and honored him properly. He taught the hunter the eagle's dance and told him to memorize it and transmit it.

After the dance, the eagle village disappeared and the hunter found himself again in the middle of the ventisca. His return to his village allowed him to tell them about his encounter with the eagle family. In addition, he taught them the dance and, every year, they danced it according to the instructions he had given them. Their nets and traps were always full and they never hunted eagles again.