Romhõsi'wa, 'the ones who create', are the immortal creator-beings of Xavante spiritual thought and the source of all legitimate knowledge of the making of the world. The old narrators hold that creation and its story alike come down from the romhõsi'wa, whose deeds are recited and re-embodied to keep the cosmos and the people whole. They are identified with the always-living höimana'u'õ and with the primordial pair Parinai'a; the distinctions among these names mark emphasis — on the act of creating, on deathlessness, on the creating dyad — rather than separate powers.