The Star-Woman is the bringer of agriculture in Apinayé myth. A star that had watched a solitary young man from the sky descends to earth, at first minute and glittering and then in the form of a lovely woman, and becomes his wife. In an age when people knew nothing of gardens and lived on rotten wood and wild foods, she reveals maize, which then grew wild and unregarded on enormous trees, and teaches the felling and planting of it along with the other cultigens; the myth is the Apinayé charter for horticulture. Having established this gift she carries her husband up to the sky. The narrative is shared, with variations, across the Northern Jê, and is among the best-known myths recorded from the Apinayé and their Mebêngôkre neighbours.