Reading Notes: Nzambi's Daughter, Part B

• Animals must work together to free a maiden to be married
• When they present necessary item to mother, the animals disagree on who should really have her
•  The mother says because they all deserve her and are fighting over her, none of them can have her
• The maiden waits on her mother for the rest of her life
• People only want her because she is beautiful
• is she smart? dumb? funny? serious? 
• Does she want to get married or stay? 
• Does she really want to serve her mother for the rest of her life? A servant in her own home?
• Doesn't she want to get out and live her own life???
• Maybe she wants to be married off, but is afraid of her mother's wrath. 

Nzambi Figure
Source: Wikimedia

How The Spider Won And Lost Nzambi's Daughter: Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by Richard Edward Dennett (1898).