The Navajo creation story that describes emergence through successive worlds is called Diné Bahaneʼ.
Diné Bahaneʼ is the traditional Navajo account of creation and emergence. It begins before the physical Earth, when spiritual beings and the Holy People inhabit earlier worlds. The people move through these realms, encountering disorder, learning relationships, and preparing for life in the world they occupy now.
Many presentations describe four worlds, with the current world as the fourth. Other tellings count the stages differently, including a fifth world after an emergence through a reed. These variations reflect different traditional accounts and published versions rather than a single universally fixed text.
The story is centered on Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Diné, and it informs ceremonies, ethics, geography, and ideas about harmony. The Great Law of Peace is associated with the Haudenosaunee, the Popol Vuh with Kʼicheʼ Maya tradition, and the Walam Olum is a separate disputed Indigenous textual tradition.