The yuda baka yuxin, the body-shadow soul, is the soul tied to the flesh, the shadow or reflected image of the living body. Where the eye-soul rises to the Inka's sky, this soul stays behind, clinging to the corpse and to the places the dead person knew. It is a source of danger to the living, for it becomes one of the yuxin that walk in human shape at night and in the forest twilight; the funeral practices and avoidances of the Cashinahua are largely concerned with persuading it to let go and depart. Its divergent fate, downward and outward into the haunted forest rather than upward to the sky, completes the Cashinahua understanding of a person as an assembly of several souls whose paths part at death.