Brother in the Pemón-five-brother set (Makunaima, Zigué, Wacalambé, Anzikilán, Ma'nápe) recorded by Koch-Grünberg from Mayuluaipu and preserved in de Cora's 1957 compilation. Name "melon seed" per de Cora — the etymology aligns him semantically with agricultural-fertility themes that resonate with the Wazacá-tree origin-of-cultivation cycle. In the Tree of Life narrative, Ma'nápe was the second scout sent by Makunaima after Kali the squirrel failed; was tricked by Akuli the agouti into waiting at the bitter Zaú tree while Akuli proceeded alone to the Wazacá. Eventually located the tree with the other brothers and participated in the felling-and-flood event. Survived the Great Flood; among the named post-flood lineage-ancestors of the Pemon. Mário de Andrade's 1928 modernist novel Macunaíma fixes him explicitly as "Maanape the geezer" — the elder-brother framing that became the most-cited literary reading; the Pemon canon itself does not rigidly fix the birth-order among the five.