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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 9779605, member: 76316&quot;]This, from Wikipedia:</p><p><b>Yei bichei</b> (<b>Yébîchai</b>), or &quot;maternal grandfather of the yei&quot;, is another name of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Din%C3%A9_Bahane%CA%BC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Din%C3%A9_Bahane%CA%BC" rel="nofollow">Talking God</a> who often speaks on behalf of the other Holy People. (He, along with Growling God, Black God, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonenili" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonenili" rel="nofollow">Water Sprinkler</a>, were the first four Holy People encountered by the Navajo.) He is invoked (along with eight other male yei) in the &quot;Night Chant&quot; or &quot;Nightway&quot; (Navajo: <i>Tłʼééʼjí</i> or <b>Kléjê Hatál</b>), sometimes simply called &quot;Yei bichei,&quot; a nine-night ceremony in which masked dancers personify the gods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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