Selu
Also called Corn.
Selu is the Cherokee Corn Mother, wife of the hunter Kanati and mother of the Thunder Boys, whose death at her own instruction becomes the origin of cultivated maize.
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- Cherokee tradition
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Traits
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Behaviour
- Corn or agriculture gift to humanity
why
Selu is the Cherokee Corn Mother, wife of the hunter Kanati and mother of the Thunder Boys, whose death at her own instruction becomes the origin of cultivated maize. Selu is the Cherokee Corn Mother, wife of the hunter Kanati and mother of two sons who together are usually called the Thunder Boys: an elder son born to the couple in the ordinary way, and a younger one who springs up from the blood of a killed animal washed in the river, a wild double who teaches the elder boy mischief.
Utility powers
- Harvest control
why
Selu is corn itself given a household role, a working provider rather than an abstract fertility figure, and the myth is built around watching her actually work — she keeps the family fed from a storehouse the boys do not understand, in the same way Kanati keeps them fed from game he does not have to hunt. The turning episode has the boys spying on Selu through a gap in the storehouse wall and seeing her stand over a basket, rub or scratch her own body, and produce the corn and beans that feed the household — a sight they read as witchcraft rather than provision.
- Creation
why
The turning episode has the boys spying on Selu through a gap in the storehouse wall and seeing her stand over a basket, rub or scratch her own body, and produce the corn and beans that feed the household — a sight they read as witchcraft rather than provision.