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After the water sank there appeared another person. They did not know him, and they asked him where he had come from. He told them that he was the badger, nahash' id, and that he had been formed where the Yellow Cloud had touched the Earth. Afterward this Yellow Cloud turned out to be a sunbeam. Pgs. 10,11


They threw away their old teeth towards the east and it is said that all teeth are thus thrown away are given to the Badger, Tabasteen. Pg. 78


Badger (na'actcidi') (H), not very exactly delineated, is represented as possessing unusually strong power. Since he sprang from the contact of Earth and Sky when the people were in the fourth world, he is a child of Sky. He went back into the hole at the Place-of-emergence.
Badger went among the women when they were separated from the men and made them mad with sexual desire.
Badger is a 'friend' of Wolf, Mountain Lion, Wildcat, and Bobcat (JS).
Badger's eardrum enables seers to divine by listening (Ch. 6, "Diagnosis"; Matthews 1897, pp.71, 75-6; Stephen 1930, p.99; Reichard 1939, p. 16, PI. VI, VII).

Navajo Religion, Vol II; Gladys A. Reichard, 1950

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