Kââvo is a female ancestral figure of Paicî oral literature, named beside Téâ Kanaké in the traditions of origin. She is associated with the earth and its cultivated plants, with the first woman, and with the fertility on which the alliance of lineages depends. Sources differ on whether she is the companion, sister, or counterpart of the first ancestor, and her story survives in fragments rather than in a single fixed narrative; her name has since passed into modern Kanak letters as an emblem of the ancestral feminine.