Lion Man

It was the wind that gave them life. It is the wind that comes out of our mouths now that gives us life. When this ceases to blow, we shall die. In the skin at the tips of our fingers we see the trail of wind; it shows us where the wind blew when our ancestors were created.
—"It Was the Wind, Navaho,"
translated from Navaho by Washington Matthews
in Navaho Legends, 1897.


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