Karusakaibö is the supreme creator and civilizing hero of Munduruku religion, a being who existed on the earth without father or mother and who brought forth the sky, the stars, the rivers and hills of the upper Tapajós, and every kind of animal, fish, tree and cultivated plant together with their guardian spirits. Sources differ on his own beginning: some narratives hold that he simply always was, while others say the first Munduruku sprang from the seed of a tucumã palm. In the best-known myth he lives at the village of Acupary (Wakupari) and, angered by inhabitants who refuse to share meat with his son, encloses them with feathers and turns men, women and children into white-lipped peccaries before sealing the ground over them, an act that first stocks the forest with game and founds the hunt. He is remembered as the teacher of hunting, of the making of manioc flour, and of the martial order of Munduruku life.