Nana, the Great Mother, is the female pole of the Guna creator dyad, named in the same breath as the Great Father in the formula Baba-Nana. She is identified with the living earth, Napguana, whose soil, forests and waters are understood as her nurturing body; in modern Guna political and ecological rhetoric Napguana has become a central emblem of the land itself. Because Guna theology conceives creation as the joint work of mother and father, Nana is never a subordinate consort but a co-equal source of the world and of its moral and reproductive order.