Duginávi is one of the sons of the Kogi Great Mother and a brother of Sintana, the first ancestor. In the myths he dwelt in the sky together with the Makú, the 'people of Thunder', and is associated with a stormy, contentious father-figure, the Thunder Lord, against whom he strives. His central deed makes him a culture-hero of agriculture: finding the King of the Vultures, he borrowed the great bird's feather-clothing and in it descended from the sky to the earth, where he began to cultivate crops and taught the growing of food. Kogi and comparative accounts also remember him as a maker of ritual masks and, in some versions, as a jaguar-elder who quarrels with his father, steals his drum, and is driven off toward the arid Guajira. His narratives bind together sky, thunder, the vulture, and the first fields of the Sierra Nevada.