Kabigat is the personified Moon of Bontoc myth, named as a woman in Jenks's account of the origin of headhunting. Seated at her work shaping a copper pot, she is watched by a child of the Sun, Chal-chal; with the wooden paddle used in moulding she strikes the boy and severs his head. The Sun restores the child, but declares that men will henceforth take one another's heads, and Kabigat's blow is thus remembered as the first head ever taken. The name Kabigat attaches in Cordilleran myth to several distinct beings; in this Bontoc episode it denotes specifically the female Moon set over against the male Sun.