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Updated: May 9, 2025
When they walked under the floor of the house, the Moglung said, "My grandmother is looking at me because I have found another grandchild for her." As soon as they entered the house, the Tuglay sat down in a corner of the kitchen, until the grandmother offered him a better place, saying, "Do not stay in the kitchen. Come and sleep on my bed."
Among the Bagobo the name "diwata" is used rather as a collective than as a specific term, and refers to the gods in general, or to any one of them. Pamulak Manobo, creator of the earth, is the diwata here referred to. Tuglay, the "old man" of Bagobo myth, and Tuglibung, the "old woman," were the Mona, who lived on the earth before time began.
Now, the great Buso's mansion stretched across the tops of eight million mountains, and very many smaller houses were on the sides of the mountains, all around the great Buso's house; for this was the city of the buso where they had taken Tuglay.
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.
The Buso swung his sharp sword; but the steel would not cut Tuglay's neck. The Buso did not know that no knife could wound the neck of Tuglay, unless fire were laid upon his throat at the same time. This was eight million years ago that the Buso tried to cut off the head of Tuglay. Then another day the Tuglay spoke to all the buso, "It is now my turn: let me try whether I can cut your necks."
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