Pumo Hniyyr is the mother of the great Nuosu culture hero Zhyge Alu in the Hnewo Teyy (Book of Origins). She is introduced weaving under the eaves of her house when three drops of blood shed by eagles and dragon-eagles wheeling overhead fall upon her, whereupon she conceives. The child she bears is so strange-natured that he refuses her milk, her bed, and the clothes she weaves for him, and, unable to keep him, she places him in a cave where dragons rear him, giving him the dragon-element in his name. As the mortal woman through whom the sky's raptor-blood enters the world, Pumo Hniyyr stands at the threshold of the epic's heroic age, the human mother of a half-celestial son.