Tuesday, December 7, 2010

MYTH: The Origin by igorots



In the beginning there were no people on the earth.
Lumawig, the Great Spirit, came down from the sky and cut many reeds. He divided these into pairs which he placed in different parts of the world, and then he said to them, "You must speak."
Immediately the reeds became people, and in each place was a man and a woman who could talk, but the language of each couple differed from that of the others.
Then Lumawig commanded each man and woman to marry, which they did. By and by there were many children, all speaking the same language as their parents. These, in turn, married and had many children. In this way there came to be many people on the earth.
Now Lumawig saw that there were several things which the people on the earth needed to use, so he set to work to supply them. He created salt, and told the inhabitants of one place to boil it down and sell it to their neighbors. But these people could not understand the directions of the Great Spirit, and the next time he visited them, they had not touched the salt.
Then he took it away from them and gave it to the people of a place called Mayinit. These did as he directed, and because of this he told them that they should always be owners of the salt, and that the other peoples must buy of them.
Then Lumawig went to the people of Bontoc and told them to get clay and make pots. They got the clay, but they did not understand the molding, and the jars were not well shaped. Because of their failure, Lumawig told them that they would always have to buy their jars, and he removed the pottery to Samoki. When he told the people there what to do, they did just as he said, and their jars were well shaped and beautiful. Then the Great Spirit saw that they were fit owners of the pottery, and he told them that they should always make many jars to sell.
In this way Lumawig taught the people and brought to them all the things 
 which they now have. 




http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/creation-phil.html#thecreation

14 comments:

  1. The message of the myth is that we should not be lazy and be alert in all the things that we've been doing.We should also focus on the things that are important and need consideration.Learn to follow instruction and be smart and wise.

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  2. In this myth we should learned how to listen and understand word by word to have a good output...

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  3. THE MESSAGE OF THIS MYTH IS THAT WE SHOULD FOLLOW INSTRUCTION CAREFULLY..WE SHOULD ALWAYS ALERT IN WHAT OTHERS SAYS OR COMMAND TO US. WE SHOULD LISTEN AND BE WISE BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO OUR OWN SUCCESS..

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  4. we should work hard in every task that we need to do. we should not be lazy and finish our work in time.

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  5. in this myth..we have to follow all the instruction that we encounter...we should also be smart ...and dont be lazy because if we are lazy we didint achieve a succesful life

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  6. - we are all controlled by one mighty God. Even we differ from each other but the matter is there is a God that we should honor.
    - we should know how to value things because they were God's blessing.
    - life has a lot of opportunities and expect to have a consequences behind it.
    - we cant know everything but we can learn something.
    - life is a matter of opportunities, consequences, blessings, and love.

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  7. perseverance is one key to achieve our goal in life. we should work for it.

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  8. work hard and make our lives useful not just to others but also in GOd

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  9. ahem u chose this myth beacause u love IGOROTS ... hehe


    1.always remember that God created us equal dont feel differ from us even ur phisical appearance is like an IGOROTS haha (just joking ) lab yah ...

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  10. .we should have determination and goal in doing our works and not doing it for fun or for the seek of others.

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  11. your myths is the amazin of them all.

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