Ofoda'e is the primordial mother of the Piaroa creation, the female from whom the demiurges of the dry land, Wahari and Buoka, are born. As the sister of the water-lord Kuemoi she places at the very root of the cosmos the affinal knot that drives its later drama, for her sons stand to Kuemoi as sister's children and, through Wahari's marriage, as sons-in-law. Her name is given variously across the recorded tellings, and in some she shades toward an identification with the earth itself; she marks the point of origin from which the shaping of the world proceeds.