The Inka figures in Marubo mythology as an already-existing lord, associated across Panoan traditions with fire, wealth and manufactured goods, who stands above the whites in the reckoning of origins. In the Shoma Wetsa cycle the transformed spirit of the burnt ancestress divides: her right side turns toward the pre-existing Inka, her left engenders the whites. The whites thus enter the world beneath the Inka, and the myth encodes a hierarchy among the peoples who possess the coveted goods of the outsider.