Selu

Cherokee Corn Mother and first woman, wife of Kanati; slain by her sons, her death and dragged body give the people cultivated corn.

Children

• the Thunder Boys

Domains

• agriculture
• maize corn

Powers

• Bring forth corn and beans from her own body
• Cause corn to spring where her blood touches the cleared ground

Epithets

• Selu latin · Selu · oralCorn; the First Woman who gave maize from her own bodyJames Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: KanatiReciprocal of cherokee_kanati.spouse — The Lucky Hunter and the Corn Mother are husband and wife, the first man and first woman of the Cherokee origin cycle.James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), no. 3 'Kanati and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn' (primary)

Sources

• existence: Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900) (primary)