Suawaka is a great meteor, the shooting star made person. He is the son-in-law of Yuku, the King of the Rain, carrying up to his wife and parents-in-law the serpents he kills; the streak of a falling star is his harpoon of fire. When the seven-headed serpents bred of incestuous marriage crawl out of the hills every seventh year, Suawaka descends to spear them, and the one-eyed Yuku, ever wrathful, hurls lightning at him as he comes. Under Christian influence he is sometimes identified with San Miguel.