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Beyond a few letters written by the missionaries we find scant reference to this tribe in history, but their own traditions and genealogies are well known even by the younger generation. BLAIR and ROBERTSON. The Philippine Islands. According to the tribal historians the human race sprang from a man, Toglai, and his wife, Toglibon, who lived on Mt. Apo.
In these places the gimokod are met by the spirits, Toglai and Tigyama, and by them are assigned to their future homes. If a man has been a datu on earth, his spirits have like rank in the other life, but go to the same place as those of common people. The gimokod of evil men are punished by being crowded into poor houses.
He and his kind, we are told, once inhabited and owned all the world, but were dispossessed by two human beings, Toglai and Toglibon, from whom all the people of the world are descended. After their death a great drought caused the people to disperse and seek out new homes in other parts.
When they were old enough, the boy and the girl went far away across the waters seeking a good place to live in. Nothing more was heard of them until their children, the Spaniards and Americans, came back. After the first boy and girl left, other children were born to the couple, but they all remained at Cibolan on Mt. Apo with their parents, until Toglai and Toglibon died and became spirits.
VI. Tolus ka towangan. The patron of the workers in brass and copper. VII. Tolus ka gomanan. Patron of the smiths. VIII. Baitpandi. A female spirit who taught the women to weave, and who now presides over the looms and the weavers. IX. and X. Toglai, also called Si Niladan and Maniladan, and his wife Toglibon. The first man and woman to live on the earth.
They gave to the people their language and customs. After their death they became spirits, and are now responsible for all marriages and births. By some people Toglai is believed to be one of the judges over the shades of the dead, while in Bansalan he is identified with Eugpamolak Manobo. XI. Tigyama. A class of spirits, one of whom looks after each family.
Then it was that the father of Langgona came and settled the trouble, and when all were at peace again they discovered that Aguio and Bulanawan were brothers and the grandsons of the peacemaker. Origin In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and Toglibon. Their first children were a boy and a girl.
Having finished this duty, she returned to the center of the room and placed a number of plates and a knife on the tambara, where they were allowed to remain for four days as offerings to the anito, Manama, Toglai and the tigyama. At the end of that period the plates were attached to the outside walls of the house, and the knife returned to its former owner.
One day Toglai and Toglibon told their oldest boy and girl that they should go far away across the ocean, for there was a good place for them. So the two departed and were seen no more until their descendants, the white people, came back to Davao.
The other children remained with their parents and were happy and prosperous until Toglai and Toglibon died and went to the sky, where they became spirits. Soon after their death the country suffered a great drought. This finally became so severe that the water in the rivers dried up and there was no more food in the land.
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