PAMURI-MAHSE A semi-divine assistant to Page Abe, in the mythology of the Tukano Indians. Pamuri-mahse brought down to earth many dangerous animals, including the large snakes of the river. One of the snakes, a large one with seven heads, fell in love with a girl and would have carried her off had it not been for the intervention of a medicine man and a dog, who after a fierce battle succeeded in killing all seven heads. Then the medicine man brought firewood and burned the carcass of the snake, but the smoke that arose was carried by the wind to the sea, and the snake was reborn. to the living world,