Chal-chal is the personified Sun of Bontoc myth, named in Jenks's account of the origin of headhunting. There he is a man whose young son goes to watch the Moon, Kabigat, at her potting; when she strikes the boy's head off with her clay-paddle, the Sun comes at once, replaces the head, and the child revives. The Sun harbours no resentment, yet pronounces that because his son's head was cut off the people of the earth will thereafter cut off one another's heads, so that this divine episode is the charter for the Bontoc institution of headhunting. In the wider Lumawig cycle the Sun is also a helper who arms and aids the hero.