First Angry Coyote

trickster · United States · North America

Átsé hashké, 'First Angry,' is the Navajo personification of anger and witchcraft, called into being in the primordial world. In the Origin Myths of the Navaho he stole the children of Water Buffalo by stretching a rainbow across the waters, an act that introduced evil and witchcraft into the world and made him the source of malevolence among the Holy People.

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