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new place and that then they sliould people the earth &< it was before 

 the rain. 



"So Balangao took his wife and traveled to a place which was named 

 after him, but is now known as Lepanto, Hananga went to what is now 

 called Mayo3'ao, Banol went to what is now called Banaue, and Etnig " 

 traveled to Ilocos; and the offspring of these four brothers multiplied 

 until they peopled the whole of northern Luzon. 



.".Uigan, on parting from his four sons and daughters, told them that 

 they must remember at all times, whether good or bad, the brother whom 

 they had killed." 



Thus it is that up to the present time the Ifugao custom of taking 

 Iieads and having canaos in commemoration of the head of Igon taken 

 by their forefathers continues, and the word Bunijon, which is commonly 

 supposed to be the name of their God;, is simply a word meant to include 

 the three names Uigan, Bugan and Igon to whom they make their canaos. 



On the top of Mount Amuyao where Bugan lived, no one can pass, as 

 people going up there have never been heard from again; and on Mount 

 Alauitan where Bugan made the fire, fire is seen up to the present time, 

 but when one draws near it disappears. 



The Ifugao has an idea that bad crops, sickness and the like are caused 

 by the spirits of the departed. Tangana, an Ifugao of Banaue, had a 

 son who was sick and remained sick some weeks. He came and informed 

 me that his father's head had been taken some years past by the people of 

 Guinijon and that his death had never been avenged. Consequently, he 

 was causing the boy to be sick as a sort of a reminder to the head of the 

 family, so he requested that an expedition be made for the purpose of 

 avenging his father's death. I suggested that probably the old man did 

 not like the place where he was buried. Later on he took the body up 

 and reburied it on a side hill behind his house. The sick boy improved 

 somewhat, but still remained ill. The body was then taken up and with 

 the usual canao reburied beneath the house in a vault with the bodies of 

 his ancestors. The boy recovered his health within a week and Tangana 

 has decided that his father's spirit is satisfied. 



I attended the burial of an old woman. It took place one evening 

 just as the sun went down. A hole had been dug in the ground tapping 

 a tunnel which ran to a vault under the house. Lighted torches were 

 thrust into the tunnel after which the body, tied in a sitting posture and 

 wrapped in a blanket, was carried in. On inquiry they told me that it 

 was leaned up against the wall ; then they all indulged in a good deal of 

 shouting and informed me that they had told the old woman tliat they 

 had used her well, given her a good canao, kept a fire going constantly 

 and done all that could be expected of them and asked her not to stay 

 around but to go to the ranchcrias of their enemies. 



"The Tingians commonly call themselves "Etnig." (Dean C. Worcester.) 



