Monster Slayer and Born for Water waged war against the Anaye, the alien monsters born from improper behavior during the separation of the sexes — Monster Slayer striking the killing blows while Born for Water watched the sacred sticks and purified his brother after every kill.
The Anaye — Yé'iitsoh, Tsetahotsiltali, Deelgéed, Suss-Na-Alk, Tsé Nináhálééh, and Binaye-Ahani — were alien monsters born of unnatural unions during the Separation of the Sexes who terrorized the Glittering World until the Hero Twins destroyed them.
The Monster Slaying tells how Monster Slayer and Born for Water journeyed to Sun Father for lightning bolts and flint armor, guided by Spider Woman, then destroyed the Anaye terrorizing the people in the newly emerged world.
The quarrel between First Man and First Woman split the people by sex for four years, and in that unnatural separation the women's improper acts conceived the Anaye — alien monsters that would terrorize the Glittering World until the Hero Twins destroyed them.
Changing Woman bore the Hero Twins to destroy the Anaye, the alien monsters that terrorized the Navajo people after the Emergence, her motherhood the divine answer to the threat of annihilation.
The Anaye were conceived as a consequence of the separation of the sexes during the Hajíínáí. Improper behavior during the years men and women lived apart gave birth to the alien monsters that would terrorize the Glittering World.
Sun Father revealed to the Hero Twins where each of the Anaye lurked and how to destroy them, but commanded his sons to spare Old Age, Poverty, Hunger, and Cold — for without these, the people would grow complacent and the world would fall out of balance.
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