Dabeiba is the great goddess of the Emberá-Katío of Antioquia and the Chocó, mistress of the rain and of the storms, lightning, winds and earthquakes that attend it. In the prevailing tradition she is the daughter of Caragabí, sent down among humankind as a beautiful woman to teach them the arts of settled life: to clear and plant the land, to weave cloth and make baskets and canoes, to build their dwellings, to shape pottery, and to dye their bodies and blacken their teeth. Her work done, she climbs a hill, the Cerro León in some tellings, and rises through the clouds to her father's house in the sky; thereafter the Katío say that when rain falls and the ground shakes it is Dabeiba caring for the fields and wishing to be remembered. Her name carries a long colonial afterlife: Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century wrote of a rich shrine of a goddess Dabaibe in the lands toward the lower Atrato, and the name survives in the Antioqueño town of Dabeiba.