Notes

1. the origin of the igorot not only explains the origin of people, but how they came to possess and work with goods they have now. the origin of the igorot involves the great spirit, lumawig, coming down form the sky and creating people from reeds.
2. according to tagalog myth, the first man and woman come from a bamboo. when the bird is angry that anyhthing should strike it, pecked at the bamboo, and out of one section came a man and from the other a woman. 3. when all the childre left mount apo save to (a boy and a girl) , whom hunger and thirst had make too weak to travel. one day when they were about to die the boy crawled out to the field to see if there was one living thing, and to his surprise he founf a stalk of sugarcane growing lustily. he eagerly cut it, and enough water came out to refresh him and his sister until the rain came. becuase of this, their vhildren called bogobo. 4.