Kashi (Kashí) is the Moon in Wayuu cosmology, counted among the primordial celestial beings and, with the Sun Kai, one of the two sentinels appointed by Maleiwa: Kai keeps watch by day and Kashi by night. The Moon is often described as the lamp of Maleiwa. In popular Wayuu narrative Kashi is a male figure of enchantment and seduction who visits women under cover of night, and the shadowed markings on the lunar disc are explained in some tellings by these amorous adventures. The word Kashi also serves as the Wayuu term for 'month.'