The boys were given suits of flint armor, the older in dark flint and the younger in blue flint. The sun agreed to give them lightning to use as weapons in killing the monsters, though he reminds the twins that he is sad about their mission as the monsters are his children, too.

The twins return to earth, and fulfill their mission, in a long saga of the killing of each different kind of monster and giant.

The Navajo always has an intermediary between the conflicting forces in his life. This intermediary can pull things into place. The intermediary can provide order from chaos, and is not limited by time or space.

Spider Woman knew the laws of nature thoroughly. She was able to interpret these laws and put them to work for the Navajo people. Once Spider Woman's work was done–having set the twins on their way to their father with the tools they needed to accomplish their task–she moved out of the picture.

Our Holy People have limited terms in office. Their time and existence is determined on different levels according to their duties and their gifts. They do their jobs at the proper time and in the proper way.

As a Navajo, I know that the Holy People have their homes at the Four Sacred Mountains. I can reach them through medicine men.

Our medicine men go through a long and rigorous training period–a lifetime of training, really–and they are gifted with the power to restore me to the right way through prayer, sacred songs, chants and intricate rites.

My need or illness may require one short, thirty-minute prayer, or a multi-night ceremonial event. Whatever it is, my medicine man, like Spider Woman with the twins, will know what it is that I need and will see that it is done.

The Nine Night Chant is the most beautiful of our ceremonies. Dancers, masked as personifications of the Holy People or Divine Powers (Yeis), are led by Talking God, wearing a headdress of twelve white eagle feathers. This is a healing ceremony of Blessing Way and is held at homes in various places in the winter months.