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To my knowledge there isn't really a word that corresponds with destiny or fate in Navajo.

The idea is rather foreign to the traditional culture. In traditional Navajo culture when something happens it is because of a cause. We can be in personal control of these causes. For example, if this year you break your leg, didn't get a raise, haven't been sleeping well and had more colds that is not because of fate or coincidence and they are not separate things. It is because your life is not in hózhǫ́. This is a key concept that means balance, beauty, peace, order, goodness. Perhaps you broke a taboo or perhaps you haven't been careful with your words and feelings. These things might have caused your malaise not destiny. You can go and get a ceremony done for you and get back in hózhǫ́. Hózhǫ́ is a dynamic balancing of multiple moving forces not a static symmetry. The inner and out, active and static, male and female, light and dark all need to be in balance. It is always within our power to work on walking in hózhǫ́

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11y ago

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