The unnamed young man of the star-wife myth is the human partner through whom the gift of cultivated plants enters the world. Marked out in the sources only by his solitude, he becomes the object of the Star's affection and her husband; it is to him and, through him, to his people that maize and the garden crops are first revealed. When the Star returns to the sky she takes him with her, so that he passes out of ordinary human life. He stands in Apinayé tradition as the ancestral recipient of agriculture rather than as a named hero.