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Soon the woman sat down on the big rice mortar, and said to Lumabat, "Now I am going down below the earth, down to Gimokudan. Down there I shall begin to shake the lemon-tree. Whenever I shake it, somebody up on the earth will die. If the fruit shaken down be ripe, then an old person will die on the earth; but if the fruit fall green, the one to die will be young."
Then she took a bowl filled with pounded rice, and poured the rice into the mortar for a sign that the people should die and go down to Gimokudan. Presently the mortar began to turn round and round while the woman was sitting upon it. All the while, as the mortar was revolving, it was slowly sinking into the earth.
When the cat hears the Bagobo scraping cocoanut in the kitchen, she runs quickly to get some to eat. This is why the cat loves the house where she lives. When the cat dies, her gimokud takawanan goes down to Gimokudan, where the spirits of dead people go. Why the Bagobo Likes the Cat An old man was fishing in the brook; but the water kept getting muddy, and he did not know what was the matter.
All nursing children who still want the milk, go directly, when they die, to Banua Mebu'yan, instead of to Gimokudan, and remain there with Mebu'yan until they stop taking milk from her breast. Then they go to their own families in Gimokudan, where they can get rice, and "live" very well. All the spirits stop at Mebu'yan's town, on their way to Gimokudan.
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