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Black God (Navajo mythology)
According to one version of the Navajo creation story, Black God is first encountered by First Man and First Woman on the Yellow (third) world.〔"Navajo Creation Story." Navajo Legends. Web. .〕 Black God is, first and foremost, a fire god. He is the inventor of the fire drill and was the first being to discover the means by which to generate fire.〔Washington, Matthews. The Night Chant, A Navaho Ceremony. New York: American Musiem, 1902. Print.〕 He is also attributed to the practice of witchcraft.〔Levy, Jerrold. In the Beginning: The Navajo Genesis. U of California, 1998. 79-93. Print.〕 Black God is not portrayed in the admirable, heroic fashion of other Navajo Gods. Instead, he is imagined as old, slow and apparently helpless. Other times he is imagined as a “a moody, humorless trickster” who “passes himself off as poor so that people will be generous to him.”〔
==Appearance==
Black God has a crescent moon on his forehead, a fullmoon for a mouth, the Pleiades on his temple and he wears a buckskin mask covered in sacred charcoal with white paint.〔Schultz, Teresa. "Mask of Black God: The Pleiades in Navajo Cosmology."Journal of College Science Teaching 35.2 (2005): 30. EBSCOhost Education Source. Web. 5 Nov. 2014.〕
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