Grasshopper-Girl and Pollen-Boy are paired as complementary male and female agricultural spirits in Navajo creation narratives and ceremonial practice.
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).
Pollen Boy and Corn Beetle Girl were placed upon the corn ears from which First Man and First Woman were formed — Pollen Boy on the white ear, Corn Beetle Girl on the yellow — their paired presence animating the sacred transformation of corn into human life.
When First Man opened the original medicine bundle during the Blessingway, Pollen Boy emerged from within the jish alongside Ripple Girl, bearing the sacred corn pollen that would sanctify every ceremony to follow.
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