NavajoEmergenceSymbol

Navajo Emergence Symbol

"There are no People"
(Record: Side Three)

Chants by Hasteen Klah, Master in Hail, Wind and Mountain chants.
You say there were no people; smoke was spreading over(the earth);

You say there were no people; smoke was spreading over (the earth);

First Man was the very first to emerge, they say; Smoke was spreading over (the earth);

He brought with him all sorts of soft stuffs1 and all sorts of hard things, they say; Smoke was spreading over (the earth);

He brought with him the white corn and the yellow corn, they say; Smoke was spreading over (the earth);

He brought with him all sorts of animals and the growing things, they say; Smoke was spreading over (the earth);

You say there were no people; smoke was spreading over (the earth);

You say there were no people; smoke was spreading over (the earth);

First Woman was the very first to emerge, they say; Smoke was spreading over (the earth);

She brought with her all sorts of hard things and all sorts of soft stuffs, they say; Smoke was spreading over (the earth);

She brought with her the yellow corn and the varicolored corn, they say; smoke was spreading over (the earth);

She brought with her all sorts of animals and all the growing things, they say; Smoke was spreading over (the earth);

Ye say there were no people; smoke was spreading over (the earth);

Ye say there were no people; smoke was spreading over (the earth);

"smoke streamed out (from behind them)"

"he (first man) commanded them, they heard him "he (first man), on the chief
mountain, commanded them, they
heard him"2

1=mean textiles & hard things mean minerals.
2 is on side 3 of 78 LP album.

Chants was collected on old 78 LP record by Museum of Ceremonial Art of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Recorded by Dr. George Herzong, Dr. Harry Hoijer and Berard Haile. Dr. Hoijer recorded the chants in 1929.in 1929.

Text of the Navajo Creation Chants Published by Peabody Museum of Harvard University.

Were the very first people the RED race of people? The biblical tales tells us that ADAM mean "Red man" and "Adamah" mean RED land; and EVE was made from ADAM from a man so Changing woman was a man(?).Were these the first man and woman?