Khado (also Hadau, Hado, Khadau; identified in some lower-Amur tellings with Guaranta) is the great Nanai culture-hero. In the widely attested legend of the three suns, the earth once burned beneath three suns until Khado shot two of them down with his arrows, leaving the single sun of the present day and rendering the world fit for life. He is further remembered as the first ancestor from whom the Nanai clans descend — the myth being shared in variant forms with neighbouring Amur peoples such as the Nivkh, and documented comparatively by Lev Sternberg. In the twentieth century the Legend about Three Suns was taken up in Soviet-era schooling on the Amur and later became an ideological touchstone of an emerging Amur neo-shamanism, a sign of the continuing vitality of the tradition.