Heluta is the father and chief of the katsina among the eastern Keres of Cochiti, the leader of the shiwana or rain spirits. In the Cochiti narratives he governs the coming of the masked dancers who bring rain and fertility to the pueblo, and he is remembered as a giver of game animals as well. Where the katsina as a body are the collective rain-and-cloud beings summoned in the dances, Heluta is their individual head, the being with whom the people and their intermediaries treat when the katsina are to be brought. He stands somewhat apart from the emergence genealogy of the Corn Mother and the war twins, a distinct power at the head of the katsina world.