First World: small, barren, red land floating island in a great sea of water mist, inhabited by 12 kinds of black insect-like creatures (among them Wasp People, Black Ant People, Bat, Thunder, Water Monster), all known as the Yei (often called the "holy ones," meaning literally, "the immune ones"),

- there was First Man (east, represents Dawn and Life Giver) and First Woman (west, represents Darkness and Death),

- roam around with insatiable desire for food, eventually led to incest, sorcery, adultery and murder, flood,

- and climb reed of emergence into world above

(re-occurring pattern of hozho - order, beauty and harmony - followed with hozho - disorder, ugliness and chaos).

Second World: Yei emerge into a dry, cheerless, blue land, with bird-like creatures (among them Swallow People, Blue Jay People, and Blue Bird People),

- First Man and First Women created 12 people who would become the Pueblo Peoples,

- established agriculture and corn,

- and established kinship terms,

- but First Woman and Sun had an affair that lead to hozho and flood,

- and ascent up reed of emergence into world above.

Third World: Yei emerge into a barren, yellow land, no light (no moon, no sun) only yellow everywhere, with newcomers establishing friendly relations with the peoples already their (among them Grasshopper People, Yellow Ant People, Red Ant People, and Black Ant People),

- there were two rivers flowing through it (one from east, the Male River, and one from the south, the Female River, with the place they crossed called the "Crossing of the Water"),

- First Man created marriage and clan exogamy,

- people began using cloths,

- established hunting skills,

- created languages,

- Pueblo People built adobe houses,

- but First Woman unfaithful to First Man, blaming it on First Man and in fact began leading the Yei,

- and when Coyote took Water Monster’s baby and hid it a great flood washed over the land

- and First Man planted a series of 4 trees for Yei to climb up into the world above (cedar, pine, male reed and with 4^th, female reed pierced sky into Fourth World, and First Man returned to leadership)

Fourth World: similar events

Fifth World also known as the Earth World: Locust first to emerge and worries as all is water and monsters, and is tested to see if those following are worthy (stand in place 4 days - sheds skin, arrow through body),

- Yei first think world and sing it into being in a Sweat House (small lodge, but couldn’t get hot, so with blankets from Owl Man and Owl Woman, flint to light fire, and burnt 4 woods - fir, pinon, spruce and juniper) got hot, and from the heat, steam and darkness of Sweat came:

- Hogan made of 5 logs (e, w, n, s and ne, made of white shell, turquoise, abalone, jet and tied by

the feathers of different birds),

- Moon and Sun (noon = rock crystal, whiteshell, forked lightning and sacred waters, and sun = large turquoise disk, red rain, lightning and snakes, heated by Black God’s fire drill),

- Mountains to orient people (Mount Taylor, south, turquoise and blue swallows held down by great stone knives where Turquoise Girl lives - Blanca Peak, east, blanket of white shell fastened down by white lightning inhabited by Dawn Boy, San Francisco Peak, west, covered in abalone fastened down by sunbeams where Abalone Boy lives, La Plata Mountain, north, blanketed by obsidian fastened down by rainbow where Obsidian Girl lives),

- on the centrally located mountain of Gobernador Knob First Man saw a dark cloud and heard a child’s cry and found baby girl, "born of darkness and dawn was her father," First Pair raised her, fed her sun-rays pollen, pollen from clouds, pollen from plants and the dew from flowers,

- known as Changing Woman - as she changes so do the seasons from birth in the spring, to youth in the summer, maturing in the fall and old age in the winter, to be reborn each spring

- it would be Changing Woman who creates the Earth Surface People - Dine (from her feet rub soil of valleys become our feet, from her heart rub obsidian become our heart, from her breathe rub white wind becomes our breath, from her movement rub air and wind becomes our movement, from her tears rub rain becomes our tears, from her face rub daybreak becomes our face, from her noise rub red stone becomes our noise, from her eyes rub sunlight become our eyes

- and it would be Changing Women who brought Monster Slayer and Child of the Water into being and raise them, who to confront and overcome most of the monsters (hocho) that threatened the existence of the Dine and human peoples, and fully transform the landscape to the features we know see

- key: so as Changing Woman is healthy so is the earth and the people, but also as the earth is healthy so is Changing Woman and the people

Sixth and Seventh Worlds: with worlds, peoples and events - and hozho and hocho yet to come

3 June 2004