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).
The Yei are the masked Holy People of Navajo ceremony, appearing in the great chantways to heal and restore — Talking God leads them, House God accompanies, and Tonenili, Hastsezini, and the Yeibichai dancers follow in the sacred processions.
Coyote grew impatient as Hastsezini (Black God) carefully placed stars in the sky. He seized the blanket holding the remaining stars and flung them into the heavens, scattering them randomly and ruining Black God's orderly design.
First Man and Hastsezini worked together to place the constellations across the night sky after the Emergence, carefully setting each star pattern into its proper position before Coyote seized the remaining crystals and flung them into the disordered swath of the Milky Way.
⚠ Some versions attribute the careful star placement to Hastsezini (Black God) rather than First Man, with Coyote as the one who scatters them. O'Bryan and Zolbrod differ on which figure holds the methodical role.
After the people completed the Hajíínáí into the Glittering World, Hastsezini stamped his foot and the Pleiades leapt to his ankle — then he flung the star crystals across the dark sky, placing each constellation before Coyote scattered the rest.
Tłʼéhonaaʼéí and Hastsezini share the night sky, with the Moon Bearer illuminating the constellations that Black God carefully placed among the stars.
Hastsezini appears among the masked dancers in the Yeibichai ceremony, his distinctive Pleiades-marked black mask identifying Black God among the Yei figures.
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