Origins and Role Lisette’s mythic origin is modest and earthy: once a village midwife who listened to the hush between heartbeats, she was chosen by the season when a winter storm failed to take the newborns. The gods—if gods there were—gave her a crown of catkins and a staff wrapped in green shoots; the people gave her their stories. As Priestess of Spring she is not aloof divinity but caretaker and witness, a midwife between earth and human, tending both seed and soul.