by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

It Was the Wind
Language: English 
It was the wind that gave them life. 
It is the wind that comes out of our mouths now that gives us life. 
When it ceases to blow we die. 
In the skin at the tips of our fingers we see the trail of the wind. 
It shows us where the wind blew when our ancestors were created.

In: Navaho Legends, Collected and Translated, Boston and New York : Houghton, Miffin and Company, 1987


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