Nãmãitãmĩ (Namaitamí), whose name derives from the Bribri word for the tapir, is a divinity of the Bribri and Cabécar peoples who takes the form of the danta. A sister of the creator Sibö and daughter of the underworld matriarch Namásia, she lives beneath the world with her mother and her own daughter, the earth-girl Irìria (called Sulára among the Cabécar). In the central creation narrative Sibö dreams of, or contrives, a festival at which he lures the Tapir-woman with chocolate so that he may carry off her daughter; the child falls, is trampled during the dancing, and from her blood the fertile soil and all vegetation arise. Nãmãitãmĩ thus stands as the maternal source of the living earth itself.