Story 1 Story 2 Story 3

Characters The sea, sky, crow ,land Lumawig Melu

breeze, sea breeze, Man and woman Tau tana
bamboo, man, woman, Childrens The people of bilaan
Earthquake, birds, fishes,
children
Parents of the children
Description of the earth When the world first In the beginning there In the very beginning
at the beginning began there was no land, were no people on the there lived a being so
but only the sea and the earth. large that he cannot be
sky, and between them compared with any
was a kite ( a bird known thing.
something like a hawk ).
Description on how Now at this time, the Lumawig, the Great Melu decided to make
human being existed land breeze and the sea Spirit , came down from the earth; so he worked
breeze were married, the sky and cut many very hard in putting the
and they had a child reeds. He divided these dead skin into shape and
which was a bamboo. into pairs which he when it was finished he
One day when this placed in different parts was so pleased with it
bamboo was floating of the world, and then that he determined to
about on the water, it he said to them, “You make two beings like
struck the feet of the must speak”. himself, though smaller,
kite which was on the Immediately the reeds to live on it.
beach. The bird, angry became people, and in
that anything should each place was a man
strike it, pecked at the and a woman who could
bamboo, and out of one talk, but the language of
section came a man and each couple differed
from the other a woman. from that of the others.
Explanation on how Their father out of when the different Melu, from his place on
different races existed desperation over their languages came into the clouds, saw their
offsprings’ uselessness existence, groups that danger, and he came
started beating his spoke one language quickly to earth and save
children, who happened moved away with others their lives by turning
to be the different races of the same language. In their noses the other
of the world: chiefs, doing so, the gene pool side up.
slaves, free men, for a specific group The people were very
negroes, and white men. shrank dramatically as grateful to him and
the group no longer had promised to do anything
the entire human he should ask for them.
population to mix with.
Other important but only the sea and the Lumawig, the Great All went until one day a
information mentioned sky, and between them Spirit , came down from great rain came, and the
(how lands are formed, was a kite( a bird the sky and cut many people on the earth
languages etc.) something like a hawk ). reeds. He divided these nearly drowned from the
One day the bird which into pairs which he water which ran off their
had no where to light placed in different parts heads into their noses.
 grew tired of flying of the world, and then Melu, from his place on
about, so she stirred up he said to them, “You the clouds, saw their
the sea until it threw its must speak”. danger, and he came
waters against the sky . Immediately the reeds quickly to earth and save
The sky, in order to became people, and in their lives by turning
restrain the sea, each place was a man their noses the other
showered upon it many and a woman who could side up.
islands until it could no talk, but the language of
longer rise, but ran back each couple differed
and forth. Then the sky from that of the others.
ordered the kite to light Then Lumawig
on one of the islands, to commanded each man
build her nest, and to and woman to marry,
leave the sea and the sky which they did. By and
in peace. Now at this by there were many
time, the land breeze children, all speaking the
and the sea breeze were same language as their
married parents
Complete the table below