The wife of Totoima
Orokaiva · mortal · Orokaiva traditional religion; continuing · mortal
The wife of Totoima is the mother of the twin heroes and the pivot of the myth's action. Married to the cannibal and forced to watch him eat each newborn, she conceals her twin sons and entrusts them to her own mother so that they survive to avenge their siblings. The tale turns on her concealment as much as on the brothers' later strength. The ethnographic record leaves her without a personal name.
Children
Domains
- concealment and protection
Powers
- hides her twin sons from the cannibal
Relations
- spouse: Totoima
- child: The twin sons of Totoima