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Updated: May 2, 2025
It is safe to say that one feast is held daily in Bontoc by some family to appease or win the good will of some a-ni'-to. At death the spirit of a beheaded person, the pin-teng', goes above to chayya, the sky. The old men are very emphatic in this belief.
They always point to the surrounding mountains as the home of the a-ni'-to, but straight above to chayya, the sky, as the home of the spirit of the beheaded. The old men say the pin-teng' has a head of flames. There in the sky the pin-teng' repeat the life of those living in the pueblo.
Lumawig makes it rain and storm, gives day and night, heat and cold. The earth is "just as you see it." It ceases somewhere a short distance beyond the most distant place an Igorot has visited. He does not know how it is supported. "Why should it fall?" he asks. "A pot on the earth does not fall." Above is chayya, the sky the Igorot does not know or attempt to say what it is.
Once they came down to Bontoc pueblo and ate sugar cane, but on being discovered they all escaped again to chayya. Thunder is a gigantic wild boar crying for rain. A Bontoc man was once killed by Ki-cho', the thunder. The unfortunate man was ripped open from his legs to his head, just as a man is ripped and torn by the wild boar of the mountains.
Lu-ma'-wig is the greatest of spirits, dwelling above in chayya, the sky.
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