Sakina is the mountain god of the Paiwan, named in the ethnographic enumeration of the people's deities recorded by the Paiwan minister-scholar Chun-fa Masegseg Tung and relayed in the survey literature on Aboriginal Taiwanese religion. The Paiwan recognise at least eight gods, headed by a creator god or gods and including distinct deities of the mountains, the rivers and seas, and the soil; Sakina governs the mountainous landscape in which the Paiwan live, the high country culminating in the sacred Mount Dawu (Kavulungan) that the people regard as the dwelling of gods and ancestral spirits. The cross-cultural Pulotu database independently records a mountain god among the principal Paiwan supernatural beings, corroborating the place of such a deity in the traditional cosmology.