WHY THE SKY IS HIGH

VERSION
BEFORE THE SKY ROSE
AFTER THE SKY ROSE
1. Tagalog
Ingat pleased his parents because he did
When Daskol finished pounding the rice, he
everything right helping them in the work in the looked up and discovered that the sky had risen
field, while his brother Daskol did the house
and it is where it is today.
work sloppily in the the absence of a daughter in
the family.
Daskol pounded the grain of rice greatly and in a
hurry that he did not notice the sky was rising.
2. Iloko
The only people, a man and a woman, wanted
The womans comb and necklace became the
to eat the marrow from a bone of a venison.
moon and the stars.
The woman removed her comb and necklace
and hang them on a low sky. Whenever she
pounded, the pestle hit the sky and it rose as
high as it could be.
3. Hiligaynon The sky was so low that God would hear his
God raised the sky far from the earth, and his
people and provided everything they need. But people.
after Adam and Eves sins, the people were
made to work. When one of the chiefs, Abing,
led the celebration of heir harvests, one of the
druken men, darted his spear in the sky which
wounded one the gods. This angered God.