Widow of the Bore
Daribi · mortal · Daribi traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
The widow of the Bore is the mother of Yaro and Karoba and mistress of the household of the first, deathless age. So long as she herself went into the forest at the warning cry of the bird kauwari, her people neither stole nor sickened nor died; the catastrophe came only when her daughters went in her place and there met Souw. She is not given a personal name in the recorded versions of the myth.
Children
Domains
- kinship
Powers
- keeps the household of the deathless age
Relations
- child: YaroMother of Yaro.'Le travail du mythe', ch. 4 (books.openedition.org/sdo/1224). (secondary)
- child: KarobaMother of Karoba.'Le travail du mythe', ch. 4 (books.openedition.org/sdo/1224). (secondary)
Sources
- The widow of the Bore is the mother of Yaro and Karoba and mistress of the household of the deathless age; the fall into mortality follows when her daughters go into the forest in her place.: 'Le travail du mythe', ch. 4 (Societe des Oceanistes; books.openedition.org/sdo/1224). (secondary)