Karagabí, recorded in the older Antioqueño ethnography as Caragabí, is the principal active god of the Emberá: the demiurge and culture-orderer who, though born from the saliva of the remote First Father Dachizeze, takes charge of the human world. He models the first people from a rock called Mompahuará and breathes life into their feet, hands and foreheads; in the celebrated creation-contest his stone figures at first only open their eyes and smile while his rival Tutruicá's clay people, made in the deathless underworld, move at once. Karagabí is credited with felling the colossal tree Jenené, whose toppling looses the waters that become the sea and the rivers, and with giving things their names, instituting law and respect for human life. Associated with the upper world and with the moon, and remembered above all as a symbol of justice, he withdraws to the sky once his ordering work is done, leaving humankind in the world he has arranged.