The Sun is invoked in Tewa prayer and song as a father and source of life and light. He figures in the widely recorded Tewa sun myth as the begetter of the culture hero Poseyemu: descending upon or shining upon a maiden of the pueblo, he fathers the boy who grows to become the Sun Youth and first great shaman. The Sun's paternity of the hero links the everyday sky above to the founding and instruction of the people, and his cult belongs to the broader Pueblo veneration of the sun father found from Zuni to Hopi.