Ina-da Samadulo Höse is the primordial ancestress of Nias cosmogony, the Mother from whom the divine generation springs. In the accounts gathered by Schröder and discussed by Suzuki she brings forth, without a husband, the gods and first ancestors in paired male-and-female twins; among her children are the lords of the bright upper world and the dark underworld. As the unmarried source standing at the very beginning of the genealogy she has no spouse or peer of her own, and the later divine couple and brother-pair descend from her. Her name is built on the Niha word for 'mother', marking her status as the maternal origin of gods and humankind alike.