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From these tales and later questioning we learn the MElu, or MElE, is the most powerful of all the natural spirits and that his help is sought in times of calamity and at very important occasions. She is sometimes identified with a female spirit called Kalalokan. Fiuweigh and SEweigh are now powerful spirits; but there is some dispute as to whether they have always been so, or once were human.
When he had watched it for a time he said: 'Of what use is land without people'; so the others said, 'Let us make wax into people. They did so, but when they put the wax near to the fire it melted, so they saw they could not make man that way. Next it was decided that they should use dirt, and MElu and Fiuweigh began to make man. All. went well until they were ready to make the nose.
It is said that MElu and Saweigh now live below, Dwata and Fiuweigh in the sky. A variation of this story credits MElu and Dwata with being the creators of Fiuweigh and SEweigh. They were the ancestors of men, for they took earth and made it into the form of people and then whipped it until it moved. From these two came all the Bila-an.
Fiuweigh who was making this part put the nose on upside down and when MElu told him that the people would drown if he left it that way he became very angry and refused to change it. "The people they made were Adnato and Andawi, male and female. The last was the father of Alimama, the chief informant of this tale. Inok, dato of Labau, is also of this line, tracing his descent from Lakbang.
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