Kanobo, 'our grandfather', is the supreme being and tutelary ancestor of the Warao of the Orinoco Delta. As Kanobo Araobo, 'the Supreme Spirit', he is the author and protector of life; the wisiratu priest-shaman acts as intermediary between him and the community, feeding him tobacco smoke and, at the annual Nahanamu sago festival, the starch of the moriche palm. His plural aspect, the kanobotuma ('our grandfathers'), are the ancestral world-quarter gods who dwell on the four cardinal mountains at the edge of the world; his power is materialised locally in ancestor stones (kanohotuma) tended by a guardian. He stands at the apex of the Warao cosmos rather than within its kinship web.