The husband of the Star-Woman is the mortal hinge of the agricultural origin myth. A young man, described in several tellings as unmarried and of low standing, gazes at a bright star and wishes aloud that it were his wife; the star answers his longing by descending in human form. Through the marriage that follows, the cultivated plants she reveals pass into human hands, so that this otherwise ordinary man becomes the ancestral first farmer of the Canela. He is named in the sources only by his role in the tale, and his fate after the crops are established varies from version to version.