Jóhonaaʼéí
Diné · deity · cosmogonic emergence · deity
Jóhonaaʼéí, the Sun, of the Diné Bahaneʼ — the Sun-bearer who carries the turquoise sun-disk across the sky and dwells in a turquoise house in the eastern sky. Husband of Changing Woman (Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé) and father of the Hero Twin Naayééʼ Neizghání (Monster Slayer). When the Hero Twins journeyed to his eastern house to claim their paternity, he subjected them to the four ordeals — sweatlodge, knives, rocks, lightning — and on their survival acknowledged them and armed Monster Slayer for the homeland-purification. Linked to Monster Slayer by a father relation but kept out of the twin's parentIds, since registering two deity-parents would compute Monster Slayer to deity-tier and override his authored demigod hero-tier.
Domains
- sun
- sky
- fatherhood and lineage
Powers
- carries the turquoise sun across the sky each day from his house in the east
- tests the Hero Twins with four ordeals and arms them with lightning to slay the monsters
Relations
- spouse: Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé
- father of: Naayééʼ Neizghání