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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.
Then the moon jumps out of the bird's mouth and runs away. All the old men know about the minokawa-bird in the ulit stories. The "Ulit:" Adventures of Mythical Bagobo at the Dawn of Tradition Lumabat and Mebu'yan And his sister had replied, "No, I don't like to do that." Then they began to fight each other.
Straightway the mortar kept on turning round, and kept on going lower down, until it disappeared in the earth, with Lumabat's sister still sitting on it. After this, she came to be known as Mebu'yan. Mebu'yan is ugly to look at, for her whole body is covered with nipples.
There the spirits wash all their joints in the black river that runs through Banua Mebu'yan, and they wash the tops of their heads too. If the spirit could return to its body, the body would get up and be alive again. Story of Lumabat and Wari Tuglay and Tuglibung had many children. One of them was called Lumabat.
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