The First Makers: South & East Asia

Every culture created a goddess who presided over making. But not all of them did it the same way. This episode introduces two categories. The first: goddesses whose mythology is explicitly about weaving. Documented, primary sources, this is what the texts actually say. The second: goddesses that weavers chose. Figures whose domains of creativity, wisdom and skill made them the natural patrons of women at the loom, even though weaving isn’t the centre of their story. Both catego...