Kuiye is the supreme deity of the Batammariba (Tammari, 'Somba') of the Atakora in north-western Benin and northern Togo. Identified with the sun itself, Kuiye created both the gods and the first human beings and is conceived as simultaneously male and female, which earns the epithet 'Our Father and Our Mother.' The divinity is thought to keep a 'sun village' beyond the western horizon, and Batammariba tower-houses are oriented to face south-west toward that abode. Like every living being, Kuiye is held to possess a corporeal form (also called Kuiye) and a soul, Liye, the latter being the luminous disc that crosses the sky by day. Kuiye is paired with the earth goddess Butan, who is described variously as the divinity's twin and as its wife, completing a sky-above and earth-below cosmic order.