Selu (pronounced <Say-loo>) is the Native American, Cherokee Goddess of the corn and First Woman of the Earth. With her very existence, the Earth was able to nurture and grow an abundance of corn to supply humanity with food. Over time, her twin children grew envious of her sacred ability to replenish the Earth with food. Knowing that her life would be taken by her children in advance, Selu instructed her children that when they take her life in the future – to bury her in the Earth so that her sacred gifts would continue providing food for the world to come and that her Spirit would allow all harvests to become plentiful.
