Pulowi is the great female being of Wayuu religion and the counterpart of her husband Juya. She is subterranean and fixed where he is celestial and roaming: mistress and owner of the wild animals and of the marine wealth of the Caribbean (corals, turtles, fish), and patron of drought, wind and death. She is manifest in numerous named places, themselves called pulowi (holes, hillocks, springs), which the Wayuu avoid for fear of disappearing or sickening there; ethnographers distinguish a Pulowi of the sea and a Pulowi of the land. Through her messenger the wanulu she takes the blood and lives of human beings. The complementary opposition of Pulowi and Juya, husband and wife yet antagonists, is a classic comparative-mythology case analysed at length by Michel Perrin.