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Updated: April 30, 2025
Before the world was made, the monkey looked like man, and was called manobo, and was actually human. But after the world and people were made, the monkey took its present form. When people began to live in the world, they had many children. One man was called Lumabat. His father had a number of children, so that Lumabat had many brothers and sisters.
According to Mr. J. M. Garvan, of the Philippine Bureau of Science, the movement was instigated by a Manobo named Mapakla. This man was taken ill, probably with cholera, and was left for dead by his kinsmen. Three days later he appeared among the terrified people and explained, that a powerful spirit named Magbabaya had entered his body and cured him.
Now, at that time, the Moon was very hungry, and wanted to eat her own baby. Then the Sun killed the girl-child, and ate it up himself. The Black Men at the Door of the Sun The men who live in that part of the world near to where the sun rises are very black. They are called Manobo tagselata k'alo. From sunrise until noon, they stay in a hole in the ground to escape the fierce heat of the sun.
This is an offering to Eugpamolak Manobo, who is besought to drive from the field any tigbanawa or tagamaling who may live there, to keep the workers in good health, to allow an abundant crop, and, finally, to make the owner rich and happy.
When children marry, the tigyama of the two families unite to form one who thereafter guards the couple. While usually well disposed they are capable of killing those who fail to show them respect, or who violate the rules governing family life. XII. Diwata. A class of numerous spirits who serve Eugpamolak Manobo. XIII. Anito.
Mandalangan, also called Siling or Manobo Siring, is much like the Bagobo divinity of similar name. He is fond of war and bloodshed and when there has been a great slaughter he feasts on the flesh and drinks of the blood of the slain. Only warriors can address him and make the offerings of red food which he demands.
A long, one-edged sword that hangs at the left side, in an elaborate scabbard, when a man is in full-dress. Manobo is a general term for "man," "people." The Visayans believe that an eclipse of the moon is caused by an enormous animal that seizes the moon, and holds her in his mouth. Cf. this Journal, vol. xix , p. 209.
Earlier writers, misled by these two names, have generally treated this people as forming two distinct groups, but this is quite incorrect, both names being applied to a part or to the whole of the tribe. It has also been customary to describe them as a part of the great Manobo tribe which inhabits a large portion of Central and Northeastern Mindanao.
In the northern part of this great island are the Bukidnon timid, wild people who, attacked from time to time by the Moro on one side and the Manobo on the other, have drawn back into scattered homes in the hills. Here they live in poor dwellings raised high from the ground. Some even build in trees, their sheltered and secret positions making them less subject to attack.
The writer is of the opinion that there is not sufficient evidence to justify such a classification and that for the present we must consider them as distinct from the Manobo of the northern district as are the other tribes of Davao Gulf.
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