Djivaamakwe is the primordial first man of the Baruya flute myths. In the myth of origins women existed before men, and men first came to them as tadpoles, called namboula; the women clothed the little creatures in loincloths and made them small bows, and the tadpoles grew into men. The first man stands at the center of the myth that legitimizes male domination: the sacred flutes, together with the bow, cultivated plants, and the initiations, were first the property of the women, and the men seized the flutes and hid them, forbidding women ever to see them. Their secret name, namboula-mala, joins the tadpole to the woman's body, so that the men's most guarded instruments are held to contain the generative power once wielded by women. The exact orthography of the first man's name varies in the ethnographic record.