Kashindúkua is one of the sons of Gauteóvan, the Kogi Great Mother, and the first ceremonial priest (máma) destined to heal humankind. The Mother appointed him a great curer, able to pull sickness from a sufferer's body as though it were a solid thing, and gave him the ability to put on the shape of a jaguar so that he could see disease and devour it. In the myths, however, the jaguar-sight that let him consume illness also led him to see forbidden women as prey; his transgression of the Mother's command to do only good is one of the origins the Kogi give for disease, death, and the ambivalent, dangerous character of jaguar-power. He is remembered together with Noána-sé and Námaku as one of the jaguar-ancestors.