Nhakpoti, the Star Woman, is the giver of agriculture. A young man who admired a bright star found that she came to him in the night as a woman; taking her as his wife, he hid her at first among the household's stored gourds. Distressed by the primordial diet of wild mushrooms and rotten wood, she returned to the sky and came back bearing maize, teaching the people to clear gardens, plant, and eat cultivated food. In her ascents she is thrown skyward by a bent sapling that springs upright like a catapult. Tellings vary: some name only maize, others add manioc, sweet potato, yam and banana, and accounts from Gorotire make her the daughter of Rain, while other versions treat her simply as a star of the sky. Through her the Kayapó account for the origin of horticulture and the passage from foraging to garden life.