Status Updates From Das Dschungelbuch

I wonder if his facility with languages points to Adam. His father is wise in letting him keep some of his ways at first. That night, Mowgli meets the eldest of the cubs. He tells him all is well in the cave. Shere Khan has left the area and vows to return and lay Mowgli's bones in the ground when his fur grows out. The cub warns him that his new pack may reject him because men are like frogs in a pond.

Messua's name has no meaning, but I sure detect the influence of Venus. She wears copper bands and copper pots. She has red lacquered furniture and an earthen grain chest (fertility). She is a mother with a lost son. She has a mirror, too! She named him Nathoo which means lord, master, and protector. I wonder if having a god on her shelf makes her an image of Mary.