In this chapter, we learn that the "net" that was supposed to catch the spirit of the dead woman is actually in the body of the living woman. The snake deity is an enemy of the universe, and the only way to defeat it is to trap the snake in the hole of the snake's body. The dead woman, however, is pregnant with a child, so the snake deity has no choice but to kill her. The child will not die, the snake says, because it is her spirit that is in her body. She will take the child back when it is about to mature and not die.