The Navajo Origin Legend

The Navajo Origin Legend is a story from the Native American Navajo tribe. This has to be the weirdest story of them all, in my opinion. It is also a theory of how life was created. It basically was about how people were created by the wind. The gods had set down ears of corn, one white and one yellow, and the white ear had been transformed into a woman and the yellow ear had been transformed into a man by the wind. It said that the wind that comes out of our mouths give us life, and when that wind inside us stops to blow we die. I suppose it is a good way to look at how life came to be, but you really have to read it a few times to actually get it. It confused me at first, but when I realized what it meant, it made sense and even though it is kind of strange, it makes sense, because the wind represents the air that we breathe, and that keeps us alive. When the wind stops blowing, meaning when we stop breathing, we die.