Rane Topne, reckoned to the Ranenwabo section, is the lone surviving son of the cannibal Shoma Wetsa, spared and hidden by his father while his siblings and his own newborn children are devoured. He is the hero of the myth: after his weapons shatter uselessly against his mother's iron flesh, he grasps the single truth that can defeat her — that she fears fire — and burns her in the maloca. His act closes the age of the man-eating grandmother and sets in motion the transformation of her returning spirit into the whites and the Inca.