Bâdâ, the Sun, is one of the two great celestial protagonists of Xavante narrative. With his companion the Moon he journeys across the primordial earth, the two experiencing a cycle of adventures in which the Sun is the wiser and more powerful, ordering human ways and leaving his legacy before withdrawing to his home in the sky. As with other Jê peoples, the Xavante attach to the Sun the traits of a supreme civilizing hero, and narrators call him 'our creator'. His paired myths with the Moon were recorded by the Salesian ethnographers Giaccaria and Heide; sources differ on whether Sun and Moon are twins or simply companions.