Taugi is the foremost of the itseke, the 'powerful beings' of Kalapalo cosmology, and the trickster-demiurge whose cunning shaped the present order of the world. Born with his twin Aulukumã to a woman carved from wood and fathered by the jaguar Nitsuegï, he grew to avenge his murdered mother and to fix the conditions of human life. He is linked to the sun and to daylight, yet Kalapalo narrators celebrate him less for creative might than for eloquent deceit, dwelling on the ingenuity with which he talks other beings out of what they hold. Sources differ on how far his shaping of the world overlaps with the making done by the elder maker Kwatïngï, but Taugi is consistently the being through whose trickery the world took on its enduring features, among them the great mortuary festival, egitsu.