Awkhe's Mother

The mother of Awkhe is the young woman whose fatherless child proves to be the transforming hero. In the myth her unexplained pregnancy already marks the boy as extraordinary, and it is within his mother's household and among her kin that his alarming transformations unfold and the attempts to destroy him are made. She is identified in the sources by her maternal role rather than by a personal name, and tellings vary on how far she shares in her relatives' fear of the child she has borne.

Children

• Awkhe

Domains

• kinship

Powers

• bears Auke without an acknowledged father

Relations

• child: AwkheMother of Awkhe.Nimuendaju 1946, The Eastern Timbira, 'Mythology' (Auke). (primary)

Sources

• Auke's mother, a young woman who bore him without an acknowledged father, is the parent through whom the transforming hero enters the world.: Nimuendaju 1946, The Eastern Timbira, 'Mythology' (Auke). (primary)