Inerie is the sharply conical volcano that overlooks Bajawa in the Ngadha highlands, its name compounded from ine, 'mother,' marking it as a female ancestral presence watching over the country below. Held sacred by the Ngadha, the mountain is addressed as a guardian and a mother of the land, and it anchors the wider central Flores pattern in which the great volcanoes are regarded as ancestral beings rather than mere peaks.