the old woman (Chapter 037)

Role: woman transported to the moon · First appears: Origin Of The Constellations

Life events

The old woman was transported to the moon, where she remains weaving a forehead-strap.(Origin Of The Constellations · 📍 the moon)
- “For this she was transported to the moon, where to this day she is clearly to be seen weaving a forehead-strap.”
The cat unravels the old woman's net as she stirs the hominy, leaving her work unfinished.(Origin Of The Constellations · 📍 the moon)
- With: the cat (Chapter 037)
- “Once a month she stirs the boiling kettle of hominy before her, during which occupation the cat, ever by her side, unravels her net, and so she must continue until the end of time, for never until then will her work be finished.”

with the cat (Chapter 037) (Ongoing companionship and shared presence; no controlled relation more specifically fits.) “Once a month she stirs the boiling kettle of hominy before her, during which occupation the cat, ever by her side, unravels her net, and so she must continue until the end of time, for never until then will her work be finished.”

Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Iroquois. Made with Rho MD.