Toba/Qom (Gran Chaco). English 'Owner of the Animals' leads; Toba Nowet (variants No'huet, Noet, Nogüét, No'uet). The master-of-animals figure, ambivalent between protective owner and dangerous spirit; treated as a deity. Sex male in the consulted sources.
Domains
master of animals
shamanic power
Powers
own and release the game species
Sources
Métraux, Alfred (1946). Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society 40.
Wright, Pablo G. 'Dream, Shamanism, and Power among the Toba of Formosa Province'.