giver-of-the-corn

Updated: May 21, 2025

"When the seed corn goes into the ground it dies," said the Corn Woman; "the tribe might die also if it never came alive again. Also we lament for the Giver-of-the-Corn who died giving." "I thought corn just grew," said Dorcas; "I didn't know it came from any place." "From the People of the Seed, from the Country of Stone Houses. It was bought for us by Given-to-the-Sun.

Mary Hunter Austin - The Trail Book