Sulá (Bribri; Surá in Cabécar) is the subsoil creator-helper of Talamancan religion, the guardian of seeds (ditsö̀) and of the souls of the dead in the world below, and the first jawá or healer. He acts as Sibö's indispensable partner and as the mythic bridge between the shaman and the high god, manifesting through magic stones or a ritual staff. In the cosmogonic cycle he reassembles and revives Sibö after the creator falls and shatters, dispatching the small animals to recover the scattered organs and compelling a vulture to disgorge the swallowed liver. He is the father of the girl-child Iriria, whose body Sibö needs to make the earth; when the captured girl grows too heavy for the animals to carry, Sibö entrusts her to Sulá so that the creation can be finished. His domain is bound up with the Bribri funerary festival, in which death is understood as a return of the seed to Sulá's keeping.