The Separation of Women and Men
In Navajo mythology, First Woman boasted that women could live without men, claiming she thanked her vagina for the deer First Man brought. Enraged, First Man led all men and the two hermaphrodite twins across the river to the north bank. For four years, the sexes lived apart. Women tried to satisfy themselves with bones, feathers, and long stones, while men used animal livers. The people suffered and longed for each other. Owl warned that the separation was wrong and that monsters would be born from it — and indeed, from the women's unnatural acts, monsters were conceived that later terrorize