Sigu is the flood hero of the Akawaio branch of the Kapon peoples. In the narrative recorded by the missionary William Henry Brett and later analysed by Walter Roth, Sigu, son of the creator Makonaima, directs the animals after the felling of the marvellous tree that bore all cultivated plants; when the stump gushes forth a deluge he seals the burrowing creatures in a cave, takes the birds and climbing animals up a tall kokerite palm, and drops seeds into the darkness to judge when the waters have receded. Later tradition tends to transfer to Sigu heroic exploits that older texts ascribe to Makonaima himself.