Djurí, whose name Goldman renders 'the singing one', is the first of the Hehénewa pajés, the archetypal shaman of the mythic age. In Cubeo thought shamanic power is inseparable from song, and Djurí embodies its origin. He belongs to the order of beings descended from the tail of the Ancestral Anaconda, from whom the shamans and the lower-ranking sibs proceed, over against the head of the serpent from which the senior clans descend. Through him the chant that heals and that governs relations with the spirit world enters human practice.