Sun Father sired Yéʼiitsoh, the Big Giant and chief of the Anaye, during the chaotic period of the separation of the sexes, making the greatest monster a monstrous half-brother to the Hero Twins.
⚠ Ye'iitsoh's parentage by Sun Father is attested in Matthews and some oral accounts but not universally present in all versions of the Diné Bahane'.
Monster Slayer struck down Yéʼiitsoh near Tsoodzil with four lightning arrows given by Sun Father, and the Big Giantʼs blood cooled into the black lava flows still visible across the valley.
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.
Yéʼiitsoh, mightiest of the Anaye, made his lair at Tsoodzil before Monster Slayer struck him down with lightning bolts from the Sun. The giant's blood poured down the slopes and hardened into the black lava flows of El Malpais that ring the mountain to this day.
Born for Water provided spiritual protection as Monster Slayer confronted Yéʼiitsoh, the chief of the Anaye, near Tsoodzil — the first and greatest of the monster slayings that made the world safe for the Navajo people.
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