Cheheru is the great female figure of the Piaroa creation, the demiurge of cultivated plants, of the moon, and of the fertility and gardening knowledge that belong to women. The myths bind her intimately to the two male creators: she is at once daughter of the water-lord Kuemoi and consort of Wahari, and in some tellings she conveys the hallucinogenic vine caapi out of her father's keeping. Sources differ sharply on her kinship, for while many accounts make her Wahari's wife by proper cross-cousin marriage, others name her his own sister and read into their union the incest that shadows Wahari's character. Through her the ordered, life-giving side of creation, the garden and its increase, is set beside the dangerous crafts of Kuemoi.