In one of the Early stories related to the Navajo male branch of the shooting chant, the first children (twins) are born to Changing Woman (and Salt Woman, the elder, is either involved or a unity with her).

The first is called something akin to ‘Little water of the Moon’ and is born easilyt. The second something akin to ‘Slayer of alien gods’ and is born with great travail and a thunderclap.

I suggest that these roughly correspond to our hemispheres, in a way similar to how the story of Cain and Abel can be read as a map of our cognitive history and the sudden shift in our evolution after ‘the Tree Incident’ (Abel, actually Hevel, is ‘killed’ and thus becomes ‘firstborn of the dead’ and also ‘rises’ during our sleep… to dominance).

But perhaps more interesting is a single obvious trope: before they discover their father, The Sun (and perhaps also one is born of the Moon) the guardians of Changing Woman’s lodge (where the twins reside) are two: Rattlesnake Man, and Bear Man.

Now, let me ask you this: what are the two toys we nearly always give to our infants?