Talk:késhjééʼ

Def a bit meager

The definition leaves me completely baffled -- I assume this is a game played with shoes or mocassins, though I suppose it could mean wild animals used to make shoes or mocassins; whatever the case, I'm very much in the dark. What does this term mean? -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 05:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

The shoe game is a game that demonstrates how the world came to be as it is. When you play the shoe game, eight moccasins are employed, along with a yucca ball. There are two teams, the day-animal team and the night-animal team. A member of one team hides the yucca ball in one of his team’s four moccasins, then the moccasins are buried in the sand. The other team uses a bee aditsxįłí (indicator stick) to tap on one of the moccasins that they guess to contain the yucca ball. Points are kept by awarding yucca sticks. There are 102 yucca sticks, one for each of the 102 paths that the sun takes across the sky. The team that finally wins all 102 yucca sticks wins the game. In the original game, played before the people arrived in the 4th world, the day animals and night animals made a bet on the game: if the day animals won, then it would always be day. If the night animals won, then it would always be night. But due to the nature of probability, neither side was ever able to win the game, so they gave up and that is why we have both days and nights. —Stephen ^(Talk) 23:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Stephen, that's very helpful. I'm not sure how to expand the entry without making it overly encyclopedic; it certainly needs more detail than it currently has. I'll mull this over, and I may have a go at editing the entry later. -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 02:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)