The two fathers are either Joseph and the Angel,
the Holy Ghost and the Father or even Joseph and a mysterious Roman legionary
called Panthera.
The Regaining of Youth
 In one Navajo sacred dance,
Changing Woman, old, decrepit and feeble, is led through the four different
stations of a ritual sand paintings and regains her youth, finally coming
out as fresh and as virginal as the Earth in springtime. Apparently, she
is reborn as a male, the Junior Twin or as his twin sister, the Virgin.
Junior is far more than just a companion and mate to the Elder Twin. He/she
also seems to be his lover as well. This is evidenced, for instance, when
Changing Woman completes the change, and sings:
Changing Woman s child
I have become,
With him I go, being restored
to youth,
According to beauty I walk.
All is in accord again,
All is in accord again,
All is in accord again
All is in accord again.
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