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    Bilaan Story of Creation

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    Melu was a giant being who lived on the clouds. He used the dead skin he rubbed off to create the earth. He then fashioned the first two humans out of leftover materials but Tau Tana from below the earth intervened and placed their noses upside down. A great rain later nearly drowned the people so Melu flipped their noses right-side up. He told the grateful people to save their hair and skin so he could make them companions next time. In the beginning, there was only sea and sky. A kite grew tired of flying so the sky created islands for it. When a bamboo struck the kite's feet, a man and woman emerged. They had many children who their

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    Melu was a giant being who lived on the clouds. He used the dead skin he rubbed off to create the earth. He then fashioned the first two humans out of leftover materials but Tau Tana from below the earth intervened and placed their noses upside down. A great rain later nearly drowned the people so Melu flipped their noses right-side up. He told the grateful people to save their hair and skin so he could make them companions next time. In the beginning, there was only sea and sky. A kite grew tired of flying so the sky created islands for it. When a bamboo struck the kite's feet, a man and woman emerged. They had many children who their

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    Melu was a giant being who lived on the clouds. He used the dead skin he rubbed off to create the earth. He then fashioned the first two humans out of leftover materials but Tau Tana from below the earth intervened and placed their noses upside down. A great rain later nearly drowned the people so Melu flipped their noses right-side up. He told the grateful people to save their hair and skin so he could make them companions next time. In the beginning, there was only sea and sky. A kite grew tired of flying so the sky created islands for it. When a bamboo struck the kite's feet, a man and woman emerged. They had many children who their

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    Bilaan Story of Creation

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    Melu was a giant being who lived on the clouds. He used the dead skin he rubbed off to create the earth. He then fashioned the first two humans out of leftover materials but Tau Tana from below the earth intervened and placed their noses upside down. A great rain later nearly drowned the people so Melu flipped their noses right-side up. He told the grateful people to save their hair and skin so he could make them companions next time. In the beginning, there was only sea and sky. A kite grew tired of flying so the sky created islands for it. When a bamboo struck the kite's feet, a man and woman emerged. They had many children who their

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    Bilaan Story of Creation

    In the very beginning there lived a being so large that he cannot be


    compared with any known thing. His name was Melu, and when he sat on the clouds,
    which were his home, he occupied all the space above. His teeth were pure gold, and
    because he was very cleanly and continually rubbed himself with his hands, his skin
    became pure white. The dead skin which he rubbed off his body was placed on one
    side in a pile, and by and by this pile became so large that he was annoyed and set
    himself to consider what he could do with it.

    Finally Melu decided to make the earth; so he worked very hard in putting the dead
    skin into shape, and when it was finished he was so pleased with it that he determined
    to make two beings like himself, though smaller, to live on it.

    Taking the remnants of the material left after making the earth he fashioned two men
    but just as they were all finished except their noses, Tau Tana from below the earth
    appeared and wanted to help him.

    Melu did not wish any assistance, and a great argument ensued. Tau Tana finally won
    his point and made the noses which he placed on the people upside down. When all
    was finished, Melu and Tau Tana whipped the forms until they moved. Then Melu
    went to his home above the clouds, and Tau Tana returned to his place below the
    earth.

    All went well until one day a great rain came, and the people on the earth nearly
    drowned from the water which ran off their heads into their noses. Melu, from his
    place on the clouds, saw their danger, and he came quickly to earth and saved their
    lives by turning their noses the other side up.

    The people were very grateful to him, and promised to do anything he should ask of
    them. Before he left for the sky, they told him that they were very unhappy living on
    the great earth all alone, so he told them to save all the hair from their heads and the
    dry skin from their bodies and the next time he came he would make them some
    companions. And in this way there came to be a great many people on the earth.
    Tagalog Story of Creation
    When the world first began there was no land, but only the stea and the sky, and
    between them was a kite. One day the bird which had nowhere to light grew tired of
    flying about, so she stirred up the sea until it threw its waters against the sky. The sky,
    in order to restrain the sea, showered upon it many islands until it could no longer rise,
    but ran back and forth. Then the sky ordered the kite to light on one of the islands to
    build her nest, and to leave the sea and the sky in peace.

    Now at this time the land breeze and the sea breeze were married, and they had a child
    which was a bamboo. One day when this bamboo was floating about on the water, it
    struck the feet of the kite which was on the beach. The bird, angry that anything
    should strike it, pecked at the bamboo, and out of one section came a man and from
    the other a woman.

    Then the earthquake called on all the birds and fish to see what should be done with
    these two, and it was decided that they should marry. Many children were born to the
    couple, and from them came all the different races of people.

    After a while the parents grew very tired of having so many idle and useless children
    around, and they wished to be rid of them, but they knew of no place to send them to.
    Time went on and the children became so numerous that the parents enjoyed no
    peace. One day, in desperation, the father seized a stick and began beating them on all
    sides.

    This so frightened the children that they fled in different directions, seeking hidden
    rooms in the house—some concealed themselves in the walls, some ran outside, while
    others hid in the fireplace, and several fled to the sea.

    Now it happened that those who went into the hidden rooms of the house later became
    the chiefs of the Islands; and those who concealed themselves in the walls became
    slaves. Those who ran outside were free men; and those who hid in the fireplace
    became negroes; while those who fled to the sea were gone many years, and when
    their children came back they were the white people.

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