The sun-shooting ancestor is the human protagonist of the central Bunun myth, named in the tradition only by his deed rather than by a personal name. A hard-working father who lost his infant to the killing heat of the two suns - the child turned into a lizard under a withered leaf - he set out with his eldest son to take vengeance. He shot one sun in the eye, and the wounded sun became the moon, giving the world night. The two then made peace: the moon gave the father millet seeds and taught him to plant by its phases, and he carried this knowledge back to the Bunun, who thereafter timed their agriculture and ceremonies by the lunar calendar and offered the moon cloth strips in recompense. As a culture-hero he is the bridge between the cosmic ordering of sun and moon and the everyday ritual life of the people.