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Lumawig: The Igorot Creation Story

Lumawig, the Great Spirit, created the first people by cutting reeds and commanding them to speak. The reeds became the first man and woman in different places around the world, who then married and had children. Lumawig saw that people needed supplies, so he tried to teach different groups how to produce salt, pots, and other goods. Those who followed his directions were given ownership of that industry, while others had to purchase the goods from them. In this way Lumawig distributed resources and taught the early people skills.

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Lumawig: The Igorot Creation Story

Lumawig, the Great Spirit, created the first people by cutting reeds and commanding them to speak. The reeds became the first man and woman in different places around the world, who then married and had children. Lumawig saw that people needed supplies, so he tried to teach different groups how to produce salt, pots, and other goods. Those who followed his directions were given ownership of that industry, while others had to purchase the goods from them. In this way Lumawig distributed resources and taught the early people skills.

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The Creation
Igorot
In the beginning there were no people on the earth.
Lumawig, the Great Spirit, came down from the sky and cut many reeds. He divided these into
pairs which he placed in different parts of the world, and then he said to them, "You must
speak."
Immediately the reeds became people, and in each place was a man and a woman who could
talk, but the language of each couple differed from that of the others.
Then Lumawig commanded each man and woman to marry, which they did. By and by there
were many children, all speaking the same language as their parents. These, in turn, married
and had many children. In this way there came to be many people on the earth.
Now Lumawig saw that there were several things which the people on the earth needed to use,
so he set to work to supply them. He created salt, and told the inhabitants of one place to boil it
down and sell it to their neighbors. But these people could not understand the directions of the
Great Spirit, and the next time he visited them, they had not touched the salt.
Then he took it away from them and gave it to the people of a place called Mayinit. These did as
he directed, and because of this he told them that they should always be owners of the salt, and
that the other peoples must buy of them.
Then Lumawig went to the people of Bontoc and told them to get clay and make pots. They got
the clay, but they did not understand the molding, and the jars were not well shaped. Because
of their failure, Lumawig told them that they would always have to buy their jars, and he
removed the pottery to Samoki. When he told the people there what to do, they did just as he
said, and their jars were well shaped and beautiful. Then the Great Spirit saw that they were fit
owners of the pottery, and he told them that they should always make many jars to sell.
In this way Lumawig taught the people and brought to them all the things which they now have.

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