Ye’iitsoh – 11″ x 14″ oils on canvas.
I read that in Navajo culture there is no monster more fearsome or powerful than Ye’iitsoh (the Big Giant). A creature from the early part of the world who made his living killing and eating humans, he devoured so many people humanity nearly went extinct. For a time it was thought that no one could defeat him. However, he was confronted by two brothers: Na’idigishi (He Who Cuts Life Out of the Enemy, right mask) and Naayee’Neizghani (Monster Slayer, mask left). The brothers, who were children of the sun, used lightning and sun-beam arrows given to them by their father. Only after striking the beast three times with the aid of the sun god, Jóhonaaʼéí, and Níłchʼi, the wind god, were they able to fell the monster.
Not sure how accurate the above info is, but now you have it anyway.
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