“A star, a star is falling Out of the glittering sky! The star of Love! I watch it Sink in the depths and die. “The leaves and buds are falling From many an apple-tree; I watch the mirthful breezes Embrace them wantonly...” Wenonah later was courted by the caressing West Wind, and becomes pregnant. Wenonah, as a young moon-goddess, has the beauty of the moonlight. Nokomis warns her of the dangerous courtship of Mudjekeewis, the West Wind. But Wenonah allows herself to become infatuated, and conceives from the breath of the wind, from the πνεῦμα, a son, our hero. “And the West-Wind came at evening, · · · · · Found the beautiful Wenonah, Lying there amid the lilies, Wooed her with his words of sweetness, Wooed her with his soft caresses, Till she bore a son in sorrow, Bore a son of love and sorrow.” Fertilization through the breath of the spirit is already a well-known precedent for us. The star or comet plainly belongs to the birth scene as a libido symbol; Nokomis, too, comes to earth as a shooting star. Mörike’s sweet poetic phantasy has devised a similar divine origin. “And she who bore me in her womb, And gave me food and clothing. She was a maid—a wild, brown maid, Who looked on men with loathing. “She fleered at them and laughed out loud, And bade no suitor tarry; ‘I’d rather be the Wind’s own bride Than have a man and marry.’ “Then came the Wind and held her fast His captive, love-enchanted; And lo, by him a merry child Within her womb was planted.” Buddha’s marvellous birth story, retold by Sir Edwin Arnold, also shows traces of this.[637] “Maya, the Queen ... Dreamed a strange dream, dreamed that a star from heaven— Splendid, six-rayed, in color rosy-pearl, Whereof the token was an Elephant Six-tusked and white as milk of Kamadhuk— Shot through the void; and shining into her, Entered her womb upon the right.”[638] During Maya’s conception a wind blows over the land: “A wind blew With unknown freshness over lands and seas.”