Abe is the Sun, whose light and heat measure the day and whose passage across the year orders the world. In Barasana star-lore the sun is read together with the Pleiades and with Scorpius, the risings and settings of these constellations marking the turn of the wet and dry seasons and cueing the round of gardening, fishing and ritual. As a burning celestial power the sun stands in complementary tension with Romi Kumu, the sky-woman whose waters and menstrual rains answer the sun's fire, and the two together frame the alternation of drought and flood that governs Barasana time.