Owner of the Animals

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'.