The Diyin Dine'é (Holy People) are the supernatural beings of Navajo tradition who created the world, guided the people through the underworlds to the Glittering World, and taught the ceremonial ways that maintain hózhó (harmony).
First Man and First Woman laid corn ears upon buckskins to shape the first Earth Surface People, and the Air-Spirit-People swept through them with the winds of life, transforming sacred matter into breathing, conscious beings.
The Air-Spirit-People are closely related to Nilchi, the Holy Wind. They placed the Holy Wind within the first humans through their ears, establishing it at the fingertips and crown of the head as the source of thought and conscience.
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