They just needed someone to whisper their dreams into their ears.
-- Pampa Kampana (chapter 2)

Importance: When Bisnaga first arises from Pampa's magical seeds, its people behave like lost and confused children. Their behaviors are a result of their ill formed identities. In this moment, Pampa is explaining the reasons behind their behaviors and her mode of imbuing them with fully formed lives and characters. She does so by granting them personal histories. The author is therefore suggesting that one's identity is inextricable from one's ancestral past.

I will be the mother of them all.
-- Pampa Kampana (chapter 3)

Importance: Pampa's story begins with the loss of her mother. Because her mother throws herself on the king's funeral pyre when Pampa is just nine years old, Pampa sees the goddess who imbues her with a long life and magical powers as her mother. However, because her parentage is amorphous and illusory, Pampa also attempts to become the mother she did...