the cat (Chapter 037)

Role: cat beside the old woman · First appears: Origin Of The Constellations

Life events

• 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 old woman (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.”

Origin Of The Constellations

• with the old woman (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.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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