f the world below, together with all food
products, plant life, and animals known to the Navaho, is credited
to First Man and First Woman, Astse Hastin and Astse Estsan; but the
myth does not go back to that creation, nor, save for the plant and
animal life and a little earth used in making mountains, does it
assume the use of any part of the underworld in the making or
completion of this. So far as the inhabitants now found in the image
of man are concerned, they were made, and first existed, on this
earth, and did not develop from a lower order.

6 The Navaho sometimes vary the assignment of their directional colors
by relating, like the Apache of Arizona, black to the east and white
to the north.

7 These four names still survive among the Navaho, applied to as many
clans.

8 Our months, of course, only approximate the moons of the Indians.

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