Abel of Amokokupai was the Akawaio prophet who founded Hallelujah (Areruya), the indigenous semi-Christian religion of the Kapon and Pemon peoples, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. According to the ethnography of Audrey Butt Colson, Abel fell into a death-like trance, journeyed in spirit to heaven, and returned with songs, prayers, and moral teachings received directly from God, which he combined with older shamanic cosmology into a new ritual practice. He is remembered as a revered ancestor-founder rather than a divinity, and his religion was later carried to the Pemon and other neighbouring peoples.