The Añĩ are the ferocious spirits of the terrestrial world, dwelling on the earth and in the forests and preying upon the living. They form the earthly, dangerous counterpart to the celestial Maï, and it is with them that the specter of the newly dead becomes associated while the corpse decays. In Araweté ritual life the forest spirits are captured and made to speak through the Añĩ pihi, distinctive speech-songs that interweave spoken and sung voice, in which a ritual specialist lends his mouth to the spirits and divinities so that they may momentarily address the living. The Añĩ thus mark the near, menacing edge of the invisible world, the forest full of predatory persons whose voices the shaman alone can master.