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Updated: May 15, 2025
But Lumawig only answered, "I shall provide our wedding feast." In the morning they all set out for Lanao, for Lumawig did not care to stay any longer in the house with his brother-in-law. As soon as they arrived he sent out for some tree trunks, but the trees that the people brought in were so small that Lumawig himself went to the forest and cut two large pine trees which he hurled to Lanao.
I believe these tales are nearly all the pure fiction the Igorot has created and perpetuated from generation to generation, except the Lumawig stories. The Igorot story-tellers, with one or two exceptions, present the bare facts in a colorless and lifeless manner.
The lightning, called "Yup-yup," is also a hog, and always accompanies Ki-cho'. Lumawig superintends the rains. Li-fo'-o are the rain clouds they are smoke. "At night Lumawig has the li-fo'-o come down to the river and get water. Before morning they have carried up a great deal of water; and then they let it come down as rain." Earthquakes are caused by Lumawig.
On the second day the men of ato Sigichan, in which ato Lumawig resided when he lived in Bontoc, prepare a bunch of runo as large around as a man's thigh. They call this the "cha-nug'," and store it away in the ato fawi, and outside the fawi set up in the earth twenty or more runo, called "pa-chi'-pad the pud-pud' of the harvest field.
He suggestively places a hen's egg, some rice, and some tapui in a dish before him while he addresses Lumawig, the one god, as follows: Thou, Lumawig! now these children desire to unite in marriage. They wish to be blessed with many children. When they possess pigs, may they grow large. When they cultivate their palay, may it have large fruitheads. May their chickens also grow large.
The people of Bontoc say that when Lumawig came to Bontoc they had no domestic carabaos that those they now have were originally purchased, before the Spaniards came, from the Tinguian of Abra Province. There are in the neighborhood of 400 domestic carabaos owned in Bontoc and Samoki. Most of them run half wild in the mountains encircling the pueblos.
The Igorot have a tradition that formerly the moon was also a sun, and at that time it was always day. Lumawig told the moon to be "moon," and then there was night. Such a change was necessary, they say, so the people would know when to work that is, when was the right time, the right moon, to take up a particular kind of labor. Folk tales
The sun is a man called "Chal-chal'." The moon is a woman named "Ka-bi-gat'." "Once the moon was also a sun, and then it was always day; but Lumawig made a moon of the woman, and since then there is day and night, which is best." There are two kinds of stars. "Fat-ta-ka'-kan" is the name of large stars and "tuk-fi'-fi" is the name of small stars. The stars are all men, and they wear white coats.
Watching over the Igorot, controlling the winds and the rains, and providing good crops and health for the people, is the Great Spirit, Lumawig, who lives in the sky. He is believed to have created the Igorot and even to have lived among them on the earth.
Then Lumawig said to the older sister: "Hand me a single pod of the beans." And when she had given it to him, he shelled it into the basket and immediately the basket was full. The younger sister laughed at this, and Lumawig said to her: "Give me another pod and another basket." She did so, and when he had shelled the pod, that basket was full also.
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