Kande Yaka, the Spirit of the Mountain, is the foremost of the Vedda yaku and the great patron of the chase. He is understood as the deified spirit of Kande Wanniya, a celebrated hunter of generations past, and is invoked together with Bilindi Yaka to secure game. In the kirikoraha the shaman circles a tripod bearing coconut milk, waving the ceremonial arrow, until the yaka possesses him and pronounces upon the coming hunt. Sources differ on whether Kande Yaka is wholly distinct from the war-god of Kataragama, with whom later Vedda tradition increasingly identifies him as Kanda Kumara.