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Lumawig: The Great Spirit's Creation

Lumawig, the Great Spirit, created people by cutting reeds and commanding them to speak, turning the reeds into the first men and women who populated the earth and spoke different languages. He saw that people needed supplies, so he tried to teach some groups how to produce salt, pots, and other goods, but only some groups like the Mayinit and Samoki followed his directions correctly. As a result, Lumawig declared that those groups would be the owners and producers of those goods and others would need to purchase them. In this way, Lumawig taught the early people skills and provided the things they needed.

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Lumawig: The Great Spirit's Creation

Lumawig, the Great Spirit, created people by cutting reeds and commanding them to speak, turning the reeds into the first men and women who populated the earth and spoke different languages. He saw that people needed supplies, so he tried to teach some groups how to produce salt, pots, and other goods, but only some groups like the Mayinit and Samoki followed his directions correctly. As a result, Lumawig declared that those groups would be the owners and producers of those goods and others would need to purchase them. In this way, Lumawig taught the early people skills and provided the things they needed.

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The Creation of People

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

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 moulding, 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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