After a time the children wanted to return to Bontoc to see their father.  Before they started their mother instructed them to follow the main river, but when they arrived at the mouth of a tributary stream they became confused, and followed the river leading them to Kanyu.  There they asked for their father, but the people killed them and cut them up.  Presently they were alive again, and larger than before.  They killed them again and again.  After they had come to life seven times they were full-grown men; but the eighth time Kanyu killed them they remained dead.  Bontoc went for their bodies, and told Kanyu that, because they killed the children of Lu-ma’-wig, their children would always be dying —­ and to-day Bontoc points to the fewness of the houses which make up Kanyu.  The bodies were buried close to Bontoc on the west and northwest; scarcely were they interred when trees began to grow upon and about the graves —­ they were the transformed bodies of Lu-ma’-wig’s children.  The Igorot never cut trees in the two small groves nearby the pueblo, but once a year they gather the fallen branches.  They say that a Spaniard once started to cut one of the trees, but he had struck only a few blows when he was suddenly taken sick.  His bowels bloated and swelled and he died in a few minutes.

These two groves are called “Pa-pa-tay’” and “Pa-pa-tay’ ad So-kok’,” the latter one shown in Pl.  CLIV.  Each is said to be a man, but among some of the old men the one farthest to the north is now said to be a woman.  The reason they assign for now calling one a woman is because it is situated lower down on the mountain than the other.  They are held sacred, and the monthly religious ceremonial of patay is observed beneath their trees.

It seems that Lu-ma’-wig soon became irritated and jealous, because Fu’-kan was the wife of another man, and he sent word forbidding her to leave her house.  About this time the warriors of Tinglayan returned from a head-hunting expedition.  When Fu’-kan heard their gongs and knew all the pueblo was dancing, she danced alone in the house.  Soon those outside felt the ground trembling.  They looked and saw that the house where Fu’-kan lived was trembling and swaying.  The women hastened to unfortunate Fu’-kan and brought her out of the house.  However, in coming out she had disobeyed Lu-ma’-wig, and shortly she died.

Lu-ma’-wig’s work was ended.  He took three of his children with him to Mount Po’-kis, on the northern horizon of Bontoc, and from there the four passed above into the sky as birds fly.  His two other children wished to accompany him, but he denied them the request; and so they left Bontoc and journeyed westward to Loko (Ilokos Provinces) because, they said, if they remained, they would die.  What became of these two children is not known; neither is it known whether those who went above are alive now; but Lu-ma’-wig is still alive in the sky and is still the friendly god of the Igorot, and is the force in all the things with which he originally had to do.