Earth Surface Person

English Alternative forms en Earth surface person earth surface person Noun Earth Surface Person Earth Surface People en folklore Native American A human being, specifically in cultures like the Navajo, residing on the physical Earth, as opposed to spiritual beings or deities, considered to reside in higher realms. en 1956 The Navajos Ruth Murray Underhill 4 Their tales qualify this as Earth People or Earth Surface People, for, in the long, poetic myth which is their bible, they climbed up to the earth's flat disk from her dark, underground womb. en 1957 Mythology and Values, An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths Katherine Spencer 153 Toad denounces angrily that an earth surface person should be going about here and shoots mudballs at various parts of her body (soles, hip joint, small of back, meeting of shoulder blades, hollow of head); she is lamed and felled by this witchery. en 1975 The Mountainway of the Navajo Leland C. Wyman 190 Down where berries were reported to be, they went again, when suddenly she saw the woman's tracks. "Whose tracks are these? They are tracks of an earth surface person!" [Holy Young Woman said]. en 1984 The Main Stalk, A Synthesis of Navajo Philosophy John R. Farella 89 Thus, the story of Changing Woman here is the story of her creation of the earth-surface people and of the things that they need in order to exist. en 1993 Yellow Woman Leslie Marmon Silko 121 The great Navajo chant Beauty Way deals with a fruitful coming-together of an earth-surface person - a human being - and a spirit; the Beauty Way ceremony itself, which incorporates the story, is given to the Navajo people as a consequence of that event. en 2000 An Introduction to Native North America Mark Q. Sutton 229 The Navajo believed that there were two types of people: Earth Surface People, ordinary human beings; and Holy People, supernatural and mysterious beings. en 2001 Tall Woman, The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977 Rose Mitchell 297 Sure, people have problems when they're married; no Earth Surface Person is perfect. en 2003 Blackening Rite R. A. F. McPhearson 22 The old man began the Restoration of the Earth Surface Person Upon His Return Home prayer, which describes the reuniting of a person with his home. en Native Americans