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According to Navajo creation stories, humans were first created in which of several stacked worlds, after the ones below it were destroyed?
Answer
The fourth world
Navajo tradition describes a series of underworlds that beings passed through before emerging into the fourth world, where humans as we know them were created.
💡 Did you know?
Navajo creation stories describe multiple worlds stacked vertically; humans were created in the fourth world after previous worlds were destroyed—each destruction tied to human moral failure.
Other options people guess
- The second world
- The third world
- The fifth world
Topics
- navajo
- creation-myth
- native-american
- cosmology
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