In Canela cosmology Pud, the Sun, and his companion Puduvri, the Moon, are the two demiurges who walked the young earth, shaped its landscape, made the first people, and fixed the conditions of human existence. Sun is consistently the elder, cleverer, and more benevolent of the pair: where he would have people die only briefly and revive, or stay young and handsome, the Moon's contrary interference makes death, ageing, ugliness, and hard childbirth permanent. Sun repeatedly outwits or survives the Moon's clumsy imitations, and the ordered world the Canela inhabit is understood as the settled residue of their paired acts. The two are cosmological ancestors and explanatory figures rather than objects of an active cult.