The Sòrbulu (Bribri; Sòrburu in Cabécar) are the primordial devil-race of Talamancan cosmogony — the first beings to inhabit the world, resembling people but cruel, in whose hands every planting turns to grass and brush so that maize and crops will not grow. They stand for the barren, malevolent order of the first age, and they are ruled by their named elder, the great shaman Sórkura, paternal grandfather of the creator Sibö. In the central myth Sibö, after killing Sórkura, takes the old man's shape and sounds his conch to gather the Sòrbulu, then persuades them to dismember and roast their own elder's body before revealing himself; the scattered remains become signs of ill omen, and the devil-age yields to Sibö's fertile creation. Authored here as a single named, bounded primordial people of the canon — the antagonist-race of the creation epic, comparable in role to the Titans or the Jötnar — rather than as a generic class of spirits.