Nubu is the good or benevolent creator of the Ngäbe (Guaymí), the divine counterpart to Noncomala's destruction. When Noncomala drowned the world in a flood, Nubu rescued the seed of a man; when the waters dried he sowed it in the earth, and from the best seed sprang a renewed race of true Ngäbe while the imperfect seed produced the monkeys, an aetiology that simultaneously explains human origins, ethnic difference, and the kinship of people and primates. The episode was reported by the seventeenth-century missionary Adrián de Santo Tomás (Adrián de Ufeldre) and entered comparative folklore through Frazer. In contemporary Ngäbe religion Nubu's role merges with that of the high god Ngöbö, the Ngäbere term for God, who is venerated as creator of the universe and giver of life to the earth.