Traditions of the Tinguian 



authority for certain beliefs and conceptio" wMctfhfyhold ? T^ 

 56 gives us a glimpse of the prevalent idea of the abode of the *»* I 

 the spirits lead much the same sort of life as thef dfd wMe Jvf but w 

 wh^tH 3 ^ T F* ° f this reato from the B^'tl*! 6 

 "ffie " of 6 t h T ? ^ d6CeaSed is SaM to be *» «* ground whneth" 

 -Tt. ^ ^ W ° ma " is kept fc a ba "*oo <*P- This last account 

 was heard in Manabo, a town near to the Igorot settlements of twT! 



""oS^-rr 1 by *» beiiefe Ld j: Sssi?" Upit 



Certain individuals appear to have intimate dealines with th* 



™teS SSST^s: ^ joined to *^ -^ 



rne atterbirth chdd, Sayen, is believed to have lived "not «-, iJL 



» the first tunes," while his foster mother- the i«"S 

 same part as did the aim of old. "" 



the^stTce and° ' 4 ^^ "V"™ «J*«»t«y W* accounting for 



~ Ste-Sl T 6 ^ 06 ° f / eleStial b0dieS and ^^ in their 

 present state, they also account for the possession of fire and of manv 



fr» ts T% SUCh " ^ and a£ate beads - Incidentally ma^y esseS 

 trarts and old customs come out, such, for instance, as thosTof war and 

 mousing which appear in connection with the origin of tte TaZ* 

 With few exceptions the myths of this division coUpond to present 



" Sr « £5 ^ T kn °™ t0 ' day = the t0Wns -ntion^now 

 existing or then- former locations are well known. They have thus the 

 appearance of being of more recent origin than those of thin r" 

 smn, ye ,t ,s worthy of note that there is little in them wlich S etms" 

 foreign to or out of keeping with the older tales 



FABLES 



The last division may be said to be made up of fables for the storv 



peaTtote^ ^1°" "*.*"* *° M °- *» 1-t o thes ^ 

 pears to be only a worked over incident of myth 56, in which the bie bird 

 Banog carries the hero to its nest, from which he etckpes by ho Sng to he 

 wmgs of the young birds. It is possible that more of thesefables Ire 



oy the writer. Whether or no this be true, it is certain that most of these 



•Tale 58. 



of tlliJ^pof te„ d ro °t y " 3 P ° SsibIe ^P^tion, for little is known of the beliefs 



1 See p. 14, note 2. 

 1 Tale 68. 



