I appreciate your reading, @owasco. The concepts of god or deity can have different meanings and scopes, depending on the philosophy or theory assumed.
In the sense given by Civrieux, the god (or gods) would be seen as the supreme being and creator, as seen in Mayan myths, collected in the Popol Vuh, where there is a group of extratermporal and extra-spatial creator beings. In the case of the religions he calls South American "jungle-sabanero", he prefers to speak of deities as supernatural beings, not responsible for an act of creation of the universe, which take the corporeality of an animal and represent some natural phenomena.
Indeed, the ancient cultures of that territory which today is called Venezuela, but of all the caribbean zone and beyond are extremely interesting, but not sufficiently studied.