BENEDICT, BAGOBO CEREMONIAL, MAGIC AND MYTH 23 



tees being lightly toasted and dipped into liquid honey, or eaten 

 uncrowned. Thus the office of Paneyangen, as protector of the 

 bees, is a highly important one and a special dance, performed by 

 one girl alone, is danced in his honor. Several legendary episodes 

 cluster about bees, which are visualized in the myths as white. 47 



The god who controls success in the hunt is Abog (var. Ubog), 

 an old man with a big belly wlio is engaged much of the time in 

 killing game. He is reputed to have his home on the small island 

 named Samal, in the gulf of Davao, and here he keeps a great 

 store of bows and arrows for shooting the wild boar and the deer, 

 which he brings down in great numbers. Offerings of arrows are 

 made to him by the Bagobo, and in return he helps them to 

 track and to spear their game. 



Certain interesting water-gods, known as Gamo-Gamo, are distin- 

 guished in bodily aspect by mermaid characters, though they behave 

 in a different manner from the traditional mermaid. The female 

 gamo-gamo are divinities of little streams, while the gamo-gamo 

 men are in charge of large rivers. Both sexes are human down 

 to the waist ; below that, fish — resembling a big fish called mung- 

 agat. In the test for theft, these river-people seize the guilty 

 one, and torment him with pricks from their sharp iron punches. 

 Another type of gamo-gamo is a good manobo who lives in the 

 ocean, and takes care of large vessels. He is said to be of enor- 

 mous height, with a head as high as a Bagobo man's full stature. 



Gods of the sky 48 are Sebandal and Salangayd. There is a 

 beautiful dance called salangayd that I saw performed by Saliman, 

 one of the most artistic dancers on the mountains. They said it 

 was done for the sky-god, Salangayd. Another pretty dance is 

 executed by one girl for the "God-brother in the sky," who, it 

 was explained to me, is brother to girls only, and is hence called 

 Ug-Tube. 40 A myth accounting for the origin of the "god-brother" 

 is yet to be discovered. 



* 7 la an unpublished manuscript, I have a song that refers to a certain malaki who 

 ■was nurtured by a white bee. Note also a Spanish version of the story of Lumabat 

 which represents this hero as passing up into heaven escorted by a swarm of white bees. 

 Cf. F. Blumentritt: Diccionario mitologico, p. 73. 1895. 



"" The Bagobo very commonly speak of this or of that divinity as a "god in the sky," 

 without specific limitation as to place. 



* * A word indicating the relationship between sister and brother, each of whom is 

 tube to the other. The prefix itg appears to have a purely formal or a phonetic value. 



