Salamati is the god of the soil and of agricultural fertility among the Paiwan, named in the enumeration of Paiwan deities recorded by the Paiwan minister-scholar Chun-fa Masegseg Tung and reported in the survey literature on Aboriginal Taiwanese religion. He is the soil god 'who helps crops to grow', sustaining the millet (vaqu) and taro on which Paiwan subsistence and ritual life centred; millet in particular is the focus of Paiwan agricultural ceremony. Salamati belongs to the group of nature gods that, with the creator god and alongside the mountain god Sakina and the river-and-sea god Volaluval, constitute the at-least-eight gods of the traditional Paiwan pantheon.