Monster Slayer (Naayééʼ Neizghání)

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Monster Slayer (Naayééʼ Neizghání) is the elder of the Hero Twins of Navajo (Diné) tradition, son of Changing Woman (Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé) and the Sun. With his younger brother Born-for-Water he travelled the Fifth World destroying the Anaye, the alien monsters that devoured the people, using weapons of lightning; he remains the great protector of the Diné.

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