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In Midwestern stories, a person of this type named Thrown Away is caught and prevented from returning to a spring. The Zuni creator Awonawilona sends war deities of this type to guide humanity out of (15[1])a womb world into the light. In another story, people of this type attempt to kill each other (15[1])with an owl’s feather and a fern root, ultimately causing the death of a wolf spirit named Malsum. In another story the sun god throws people of this type against a wall of spikes, fills a sweat lodge (15[1])with hot steam, and offers them poisoned tobacco. Those people (15[1])of this type kill the (*) horned Déélgééd (“day-EL-ged”) and the big giant (10[1])Yéʼiitsoh (“yay-eet-soh”). Other people of this type receive a message from a louse inside of a toad inside of a snake. In Navajo stories, Changing Woman (10[1])gives birth to monster-slaying people of this type. For 10 points, the lords of Xibalba are defeated by heroes with what relationship to each other in the Popol Vuh? ■END■

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