136 ANIMISM AND FOLK-LORE OF GUIANA INDIANS [eth. ANN. 30 



Mount Zabang, the Olyinpiis of the Makusis, is the dweUing of 

 then- great Spu-it Makunaima (ScR, ii, 188). 



43. Amalivaca (Sect. 8), venerated by the Caribs and more 

 especially by the Tamanacs, is said to have arrived in a bark, during 

 the subsidence of the gi'eat waters, and carved the sculptures now 

 seen high on the perpendicular faces of the rocks wliich border the 

 great rivers (Br, 387). He has a brother Voclii — together, they 

 created the world. Wliile making the Orinoco they had a long con- 

 sultation about causing the stream to flow up and down at one and 

 the same time, so as to ease the paddlers as much as possible. Amali- 

 vaca had daughters who were very fond of gadtling about, so he 

 broke their legs to render them sedentary, and force them to people 

 the land of the Tamanacs. He also did many other tilings. He 

 made the earth sufficiently level for people to dwell on. He seems 

 to have known music. His house, consisting of some blocks of 

 stone piled one on another, forming a sort of cavern, may stiU be 

 seen on the plains of Malta, and near it is a large stone wMch the 

 Indians say "was an instrument of music, the drum of AmaUvaca" 

 (AVH, II, 47-3). Strange to say, I can obtain no information at 

 first-hand from the Pomeroon District Caribs concerning this 

 Amalivaca; even the name appears to be now unknown here. 



