L5A. The head turns into a celestial object.

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A rolling head turns into a celestial object that emits or eclipses light (sun, moon, stars, fireball; the cause of eclipses). See motif L5.

Melanesia. Marind-anim [The Sun].

South Asia. The Mahabharata, the Puranas, the Ramayana [eats the moon and the sun].

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachayevtsy [devours the moon].

Plains. Pawnee [a broken rolling skull turns into a month and sun].

Big Pool. Ute [the Shin-au-Av brothers wake up and see that someone has cut off their hair; they find a strange creature, cut off its head, which rises to the sky, turns into a month; the spots on it are Sh brothers' hair]: Powell 1971:81.

Guiana. Oyampi [Pleiades]; carinha na Orinoco [Morning Star]; kalinha [Southern Cross]; trio [star].

Central Amazon. Munduruku [sun].

Montagna - Jurua. A month. Kashinaua; yaminaua; sharanaua; kuniba.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [the older brother climbs a palm tree for leaves; cuts off and throws down his younger leg, intestines, liver and other organs and parts of his body; every time he screams that it is such a leaf; the last head falls, asks to carry it in the basket; kills for brother tapir; kills people in the village; turns into a meteor]: Nordenskiöld 1924:294-295.