In the Jê myth of the origin of agriculture, a star takes the form of a woman, descends from the sky and marries a human man. Through her the people learn of maize and the other cultivated plants, which until then were unknown or hidden, ending an age in which food was poor or gathered wild. Her celestial origin marks cultivation as a gift from beyond the human world, and her marriage into the community is the channel by which that gift is domesticated. Attested across the Jê and belonging to the Kĩsêdjê share of that patrimony, the Star Woman complements the fire myth: together they account for the two pillars of settled life, the cooked and the cultivated. Sources vary in the details of her arrival and of the plants she reveals.