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EP 284: Philippines- Ipugaw Lumawig Stories (Cole) · Sandman Stories Presents

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  Welcome back, listeners to Sam and Stories Presents, a folklore
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  podcast where I read you to sleep or until the next story.
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  I'm your host, Dustin, if you want more Sandman, I have extra
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  stories that are too spicy for the main feed available on my
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  Patreon, and you can get everything joining at the free
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  tier. Today we are back in the book of
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  Filipino folklore written down by Mabel Cook Cole.
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  In these three stories, we learn about Lumowig, a great spirit,
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  how he flooded the world and how he got married.
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  And these are all stories by the Ibogao people.
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  OK, let's begin the creation. In the beginning, there were no
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  people on earth. Lumowig, the Great Spirit, came
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  down from the sky and cut many reeds.
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  He divided these into pairs that he placed in different parts of
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  the world. And then he said to them, You
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  must speak. Immediately.
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  The reeds became people, and in every home was a man and a woman
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  who could talk. But the language of each couple
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  differed from that of the others.
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  Then Lumiwig commanded each man and woman marry, which they did.
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  By and by there were many children, all speaking the same
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  language as their parents. These in turn married and had
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  many children. In this way there came to be
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  many people on this earth. Now Lumiwig saw that there were
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  several things which the people on earth needed to use, so he
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  set to work to supply them. He created salt and told the
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  inhabitants of one place to boil it down and sell it to their
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  neighbors. But these people could not
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  understand the directions of the Great Spirit, and the next time
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  he visited them they had not touched the salt.
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  Then he took it away from them and gave it to the people of a
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  place called Maiyanit. These people did as he directed
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  and because of this he told them that they should always be the
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  owners of the salt and that the other peoples must buy them from
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  them. Then Lumowig went to the people
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  of Pondock and told them to get a clay and make pots.
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  They got the clay but they did not understand the molding and
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  the jars were not well shaped. Because of their failure,
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  Lumowig told them that they would always have to buy their
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  jars and he removed the pottery to Samoki when he told the
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  people there what to do, just as he has said, and their jars were
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  well shaped and beautiful. Then the Great Spirit saw that
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  they were fit owners of the pottery and he told them that
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  they should always make jars to sell.
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  In this way Lumawig taught all the people and brought them all
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  to have things which they now have.
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  The end. OK, and story #2 The flood
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  story. Once Upon a time, when the world
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  was flat and there were no mountains, there lived two
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  brothers, sons of Lumowig, the Great Spirit.
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  The brothers were fond of hunting, and since no mountains
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  had formed, there was no good place to catch wild pig and
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  deer. And the older brother said, Let
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  us cause water to flow over all the world and cover it up, and
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  then the mountains will rise. So they caused water to flow all
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  over the earth, and when it was covered they took the head
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  basket of the town and set it for a trap.
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  The brothers were very much pleased when they went to look
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  at their trap, for they had caught not only many wild pigs
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  and deer, but also many people. Now Lumowig looked down from his
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  place in the sky and saw that his sons had flooded the earth,
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  and then in all the world there was just one spot which was not
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  covered. And he saw that all the people
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  in the world had been drowned, except for one brother and one
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  sister who lived in Pocus. Then Lumowig descended and he
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  called to the boy and girl, saying, Oh, you are still alive.
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  Yes, answered the boy, we are still alive, but we are very
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  cold. So Lumowig commanded his dog and
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  deer to get fire for the boy and girl.
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  The dog and deer swam quickly away, but the Lumowig waited a
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  long time. They did not return and all the
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  time the boy and girl were growing colder.
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  Finally Lumowig went after the dog and deer, and when he
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  reached them he said, Why are you so long in bringing the fire
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  to Pocus? Get ready and come quickly while
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  I watch you, for the boy and girl are very cold.
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  Then the dog and the deer took the fire and started to swim
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  through the flood, but when they had gone only a little way the
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  fire was put out. Lumui commanded them to get more
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  fire, and so they did, but they swam only a little way again
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  when that of the deer went out, and that of the dog would have
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  been extinguished also, had not Lumui gone quickly to him and
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  taken it. As soon as Lumowig reached the
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  pokies he built a big fire which warmed the brother and sister,
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  and the water evaporated so that the world was as it was before,
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  except that now there were mountains.
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  The brother and sister married and had children, and thus there
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  came to be many people on the earth, the and.
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  OK, and story #3 Lumowig on Earth.
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  One day when Lumowig the Great Spirit looked down from his
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  place in the sky, he saw two sisters gathering beans and he
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  decided to go down to visit them.
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  When he arrived at the place, he asked them what they were doing.
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  The younger, whose name was Fugan, answered.
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  We are gathering beans but it takes a long time to get enough
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  for my sister wants to go bathing all the time.
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  Then Lumiwig said to the older sister, hand me a single pod of
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  the beans and when she had given it to him he shelled it into the
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  basket and immediately the basket was full.
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  The younger sister laughed at this and Lumiwig said to her,
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  give me another pod and another basket.
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  She did so and when he had shelled the pod, that basket was
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  also full. Then he said to the younger
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  sister, go home and get three more baskets.
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  She went home, but when she asked for three more baskets,
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  her mother said the beans were few and she did not need so
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  many. Then Fukan told her of the young
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  man who could fill a basket from 1 pot of beans.
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  And the father who heard her story said, go bring the young
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  man here, for I think he must be a God.
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  So Fukan took the three baskets back to Lumowig, and when he had
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  filled these the same way as he'd done the other two, he
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  helped the girls carry them home to the house.
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  As soon as they reached their home, he stopped outside to cool
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  himself, but the father called to him and he went up into the
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  house and asked for some water. The father brought him a coconut
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  shell full of water, and before drinking it, Lumowig looked at
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  it and said, If I stay here with you, I shall become very strong.
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  The next morning Lumowig asked to see their chickens and when
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  they opened the chicken coop, out came a hen and many little
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  chicks. Are these all of your chickens?
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  Asked Lumuwig and the father assured them that they were all.
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  He bade them bring rice meal that he might feed them and as
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  the chickens ate they all grew rapidly till they were all cocks
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  and hens. Next Lumuwig asked how many pigs
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  they had and the father replied that they had one with some
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  little ones. Then Lumuwig asked them to fill
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  a pail with sweet potato leaves and he fed the pigs.
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  As they ate. They also grew to full size.
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  The father was so pleased with all these things that he offered
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  his oldest daughter to Lumuwig for a wife.
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  But the Great Spirit said he preferred to marry the younger,
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  so that was arranged. Now when his brother-in-law
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  learned that Lumuwig desired a feast at his wedding, he was
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  very angry and said where would you get food for your wedding
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  feast? There is no rice, nor beef, nor
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  pork nor chicken. But Lumwig only answered, I
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  shall provide our wedding feast. In the morning, they all set out
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  for Lanau, for Lumwig did not care to stay any longer in the
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  house with his brother-in-law. As soon as they arrived, he sent
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  for some tree trunks. But the trees that the people
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  brought in were so small that Lumwig himself went to the
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  forest and cut 2 large pine trees which he hurled to Lanau.
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  When the people had built a fire with the trees, he commanded
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  them to bring 10 kettles filled with water.
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  Soon the water was boiling hot and the brother-in-law laughed
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  and said, where is your rice? You have the boiling water but
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  you do not seem to think of the rice.
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  In answer to this, Lumenwig took a small basket of rice and
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  passed it over the five kettles and they were full.
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  Then he called Yushchao and some of the deer came running out of
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  the forest. These were not what he wanted
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  however, so he called again and some pigs came.
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  He told the people that they were each to catch 1 and for his
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  brother-in-law he selected the largest and best.
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  They all set out in pursuit of the pigs and the others quickly
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  caught theirs. But though the brother-in-law
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  chased his until he was very tired and hot, he could not
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  catch it. Llumiwig laughed at him and
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  said, You chase that pig until he is thin, and still you cannot
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  catch it, though all the others have theirs.
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  Thereupon he grasped the hind legs of the pig and lifted it.
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  All the people laughed, and the brother-in-law said, Of course
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  you can catch it, because I chased it until it was tired.
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  Lumowig then handed it to him and said, Here you carry it.
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  But no sooner had the brother-in-law put it over his
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  shoulder than it cut loose and ran away.
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  Why did you let it go? Asked Lumiwig.
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  Do you care nothing for it even after I caught it for you?
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  Catch it again and bring it here.
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  So the brother-in-law started out again and he chased it
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  upstream and down, but he could not catch it.
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  Finally Lumiwig reached down and picked up the pig and carried it
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  to the place where the others were cooking.
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  After they had all eaten and drunk and made their offerings
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  to the spirits, Lumiwig said Come, let us go to the mountain
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  to consult the omen concerning the northern tribes.
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  So they consulted the omen but it was not favorable and they
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  were starting home when the brother-in-law asked Lumiwig to
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  create some water as the people were hot and thirsty.
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  Why do you not create water Lumiwig?
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  He repeated as Lumiwig paid no attention to him.
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  You care nothing that the people are thirsty and in need of
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  drink. Then they quarrelled and were
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  very angry and Lumowig said to the people, let us sit down and
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  rest. While they rested, Lumowig
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  struck the rock with his spear and water came out.
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  The brother-in-law jumped up to get a drink first, but Lumowig
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  held him back and said he must be the last to drink.
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  So they all drank, and when they had finished the brother-in-law
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  stepped up, but Lumowig gave him a push, which sent him into the
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  rock, and water came from his body.
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  You must stay there, said Limowig, because you have
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  troubled me a great deal. And they went home, leaving him
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  in the rock. Some time after this Limowig
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  decided to go back to the sky to live.
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  But before he went he took care that his wife should have a
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  home. He made a coffin of wood and
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  placed her in it with a dog at her feet and a cock at her head.
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  And as he said it floating on the water, he told it not to
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  stop until it reached Ting Laen. Then if the foot end struck
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  first, the dog should bark, and if the head end was the first to
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  strike, the cock should crow. So it floated away, and on and
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  on until it came to Tingleyan. Now a widower was sharpening his
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  axe on the Bank of the river, and when he saw the coffin stop
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  he went to fish it out of the water.
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  On shore he started to open it, but Fugan cried out.
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  Do not drive a wedge for I am in here.
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  So the widower opened it carefully and took Fugan up to
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  the town and then as he had no wife of his own he married her.
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  The end. Well Congrats to Lumowig.
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  He did all that stuff and got married in the end and then left
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  his wife. Interesting.
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  And the brother-in-law, I I can understand how brothers in law
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  kind of tumble a little bit. My ex brother-in-law John, he
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  and I did not get along. But my sister-in-law Hikung is
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  amazingly wonderful. I love her and it's always
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  interesting to read stories like this because they tell what's
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  important to the people. It was also interesting that the
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  name spelled Fukan. FUKAN in the first stories and
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  then FUGAN in the last 1. And I don't think that they are
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  different characters. Either way, I'm enjoying these
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  stories and I look forward to finding more stories from the
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  Philippines. And the podcast shout out is to
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  the Down and Wordy Podcast. It is a lovely show hosted by
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  Russell and Hannah. It covers a theme and throws in
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  some linguistic fun along with it.
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  Recently they covered The Proclaimers and their song 500
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  Miles and then they talked about Imperial Measurements.
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  They have also covered Productive Ussy Hands and a
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  variety of other random fun learning and so if you like
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  their show as much as I do, go and give them a like a rating
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  and a review. And the listener shout out is to
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  Krakow, Poland. According to Google, Krakow, a
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  southern Poland city near the border of the Czech Republic, is
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  known for its well preserved medieval corps and Jewish
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  quarter. Its Old Town, ringed by Plenty
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  Park and remnants of the city's medieval walls, is centered on
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  the stately expansive Rynik Gulni Market Square.
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  This Plaza is the site of the Cloth Hall, a Renaissance era
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  trading outpost, and Saint Mary's Basilica, a 14th century
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  Gothic church. Thank you, Google.
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  And so to my listener in Krakow, I say nee Moi Cirque, nee Moi
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  malpi, Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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  A Polish phrase that I've always enjoyed.
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  Thank you and good night.