Lature Danö (also Latura Danö) is the lord of the lower world in the indigenous religion of Nias and the dark, chthonic counterpart of the sky-god Lowalangi. In Suzuki's analysis of Nias dualism he is the firstborn of the divine children and presides over the underworld — a dark realm, sometimes pictured as a cave or great pit — while Lowalangi rules the bright sky; the two embody the paired oppositions (upper/lower, light/dark, good/harmful) on which the cosmology turns, mediated by Silewe Nazarata. He is identified with the great serpent whose body underlies and shakes the earth and with the colour black, against the gold of the upper world. Sources differ on his gender valence: in the brother narratives he is masculine and the elder brother of Lowalangi, while in the structural dualism of upper/lower he occupies the dark, sometimes feminine-coded pole; both readings are recorded in the colonial-era and later ethnography.