Kumariawa is the mother of Wanadi, brought into being not by birth but by dreaming: Wanadi's second spirit-double, Nadeiumadi, thought her, smoked tobacco and sang her into existence with the maraca. He then dreamed her death so that her rising again would prove to the dying people that death could be undone. As Kumariawa began to climb back out of the earth, Odosha defiled her rising body with filth, the ground closed, and she fell into bones and charcoal, so that the resurrection failed and death became permanent for humankind. Wanadi gathered up her bones and left the world in darkness; in the sky of Kahuña she was at last resurrected and dwells there with him. Kumariawa thus stands at the very origin of human mortality in the Watunna.