Noána-sé is one of the jaguar-ancestors of the Kogi, named as a son of the Great Mother and counted among the Jaguar Lords who dwell in the upper levels of the Kogi universe and who are linked with the Makú, the people of thunder. He appears above all in the mythic trilogy of jaguar-men, alongside Kashindúkua and Námaku: beings who could put on the jaguar's shape in order to see and devour disease, but whose abuse of that transformation, against the Mother's command to do only good, is one of the Kogi explanations for the coming of illness and death into the world. Where Kashindúkua is developed as the exemplary curer, Noána-sé stands as a companion figure in the same complex, embodying the dangerous, predatory pole of shamanic power.