All of Taiwan’s 16 officially recognized Austronesian tribes, except the Kavalan in Yilan, have oral histories chronicling the shooting of the Sun. According to Shooting the Sun myths, the first humans lived in a superheated world that was afflicted by the effulgence of multiple suns, which dominated the heavens. The suns oppressed all life on Earth by inducing extreme heat and drought. Moreover, there was no night. Instead, in this environment of perpetual day, mankind suffered relentless and unbearable distress. A hero embarked on a quest to kill the superfluous sun(s), usually by shooting it with arrows. The result of shooting the sun was the creation of the Moon. This incident signaled the advent of seasons, which allowed for “seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night” as is written in Genesis 8:22; These are all conditions which, prior to the shooting of the Sun, did not exist according to Formosan mythology.