Changing Woman
American Indian mythology
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comparison with Old Woman’s Grandchild
- In Native American literature: Plains
…resembles the Navajo myth of Changing Woman, the Sun’s mistress who bore the children Monster-Slayer and Child-Born-of-Water. This concept of change into an astral body is quite widespread in the Plains. In a Cheyenne version of the Dog Husband story, the mother and her children go to the sky and…
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