Eschetewuarha is the great mother goddess of the Chamacoco, styled Mistress of the World and mother of the clouds. The older ethnography describes her as the female principle who governs the sky, sends the rains, and sustains all living things, receiving the offerings of hunters and shamans; the clouds are said to be her birds and the fog her breath. She is named as the mother of the primordial spirit-beings, the Anaposo, and as the guarantor of the world's fertility. Sources differ on whether Eschetewuarha and the scarlet spirit Ashnuwerta are two goddesses or two names for a single supreme female being, the earlier Chaco ethnography favouring the former and the living Ishir tradition emphasising the latter.