Calling Back Chant

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    Most likely a fictional title for a Navajo ceremonial invented by Tony Hillerman for his 1978 Navajo detective novel Listening Woman. According to the novel, the Calling Back Chant was passed down patrilineally through a single family and holds the answers to how the current world will end and become the next world as per the Navajo Origin story.

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