Hatuibwari is a winged serpent-being with a human head, four eyes, and bat-like wings, reported for San Cristoval and for Bugotu on Santa Isabel and counted among the figona and vigona, the spirits that were never men. Described as a creator and nourisher, in several tellings a mother-being who makes and suckles the first human beings, Hatuibwari dwells on a mountain or in the sky and is bound up with rain and the fruitfulness of the land. The distinctive four-eyed, winged form makes it one of the most vividly imagined beings of the south-east Solomons. Sources differ on its sex, some treating Hatuibwari as a mother-creator and others as male, and its name is cognate with Kahausibware of Makira, with whom it is sometimes identified.