Tonenili
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Tonenili is literally, ‘water sprinkler’. The rain god of the Navajo Indians of Arizona. A deity given to having fun and playing tricks, Tonenili carries a water pot. In the tribal dances he is represented by a masked man who enacts the part of a clown. In the myths, too, he is the fool who dances about in order to show that he is pleased with what is happening.[1]
Tonenili was very mischievous and liked nothing better than a good downpour at the wrong moment. Fortunately his tricks never harm anyone. It was Tonenili that saved the first Navajo from the water monster Ticholtsodi.
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- ^ Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology: Tonenili; http://www.enotes.com/wm-encyclopedia/tonenili
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