Coyote, Mąʼii, whose ceremonial name Áłtsé Hashké means 'First Angry' or 'First Scolder', is among the most important and most ambivalent of the Diné Holy People. Present from the earliest worlds, he is the archetypal trickster whose greed, lust and impatience repeatedly disrupt the careful ordering of creation: when the Holy People are placing the stars deliberately in the sky, Coyote seizes the blanket of remaining stars and flings them upward, creating the untidy sweep of the Milky Way, and in other episodes he brings death, sickness and witchcraft into the world. Yet his chaotic energy is not merely destructive; in the Coyoteway and related ceremonials his power to drive off 'ugly things' is harnessed to restore hózhó, the condition of beauty and balance, to a patient. He is a shape-shifter and boundary-crosser whose stories carry much of the moral and cosmological teaching of the tradition.