Cidal, the sun, is counted among the spirits of the heavens alongside the moon and the sky god. Beyond its place in the celestial pantheon, the sun plays a decisive narrative role in the Amis flood tradition: when the two flood survivors, brother and sister, marry and produce only snakes, frogs, lizards and other malformed creatures, it is the sun that reveals to them the rite by which they may thereafter bear true human children, so becoming the ancestors of the Amis. The solar deity thus mediates the passage from chaotic post-flood generation to properly ordered human descent.