The Maï hete, the 'true' or 'real gods,' are the eminent species among the divinities and the agents of the Araweté afterlife. When a soul reaches the sky the Maï hete kill and eat it, then resurrect the devoured one from the bones by means of a magical bath, remaking the dead as a shining, immortal being of their own kind who is thereupon married to a Maï. This cannibal-matrimonial operation, in which consumption is the very condition of divinization, lies at the heart of Araweté theology: to become divine the person must first be eaten. The Maï hete thus stand at the threshold between humanity and godhood, the devourers through whom the dead are unmade and made eternal.