Umholi

Umholi is one of “The Mothers of the Shekind."  She led the rebellion that successfully took the women from earth to Mars, which had only just begun its terraforming process. A few generations later, about one eighth of the planet Mars is terraformed into Sylvanus . Life-enabling robotics has prolonged Umholi's life. Today she is called the "Ancient Mother," or the "SheKind Methuselah." Umholi’s Old Earth wish has come true, in that her great grandchildren, like Bellator, learn to climb trees and go to bed with brown dirt beneath their fingernails. Umholi and Isa share sainthood in the garden temple in the capitol, where thickets of flowers and heavy vines drape polished Martian stones. The Shekind have built shrines to both women, and they routinely deposit flowers, herbs and spices at the shrine, and onto the tomb where Isa's bones rest deep in Martian soil.