The Diróa-mahsë, or 'Blood People', are among the divine personifications that Reichel-Dolmatoff records the Sun-Father as having established. Named from diró, 'blood', they are linked with the life-giving blood-energy that the Desana associate with health and, together with the Day People (Emëkóri-mahsë), they consistently represent the principle of good, standing in contrast to the sorcerous Night People. In shamanic practice the paye reaches them, like the other beneficent supernaturals, through the mediation of Vihó-mahsë in the Milky Way, calling upon them in the healing and protective dimension of Desana cosmology.