Last of all, Lumabat jumped—­quick, quicker than the rest; and before the sharp edges snapped shut, he was safe in heaven.  As he walked along, he saw many wonderful things.  He saw many kampilans standing alone, and fighting, and that without any man to hold them.  Lumabat passed on by them all.  Then he came to the town where the bad dead live.  The town is called “Kilut.” [51] There, in the flames, he saw many spirits with heavy sins on them.  The spirits with little sins were not in the flames; but they lay, their bodies covered with sores, in an acid that cuts like the juice of a lemon.  Lumabat went on, past them all.

Finally he reached the house of Diwata, [52] and went up into the house.  There he saw many diwata, and they were chewing betel-nut, [53] And one diwata spit from his mouth the isse [54] that he had finished chewing.  When Lumabat saw the isse coming from the mouth of the god, it looked to him like a sharp knife.  Then Diwata laid hold of Lumabat, and Lumabat thought the god held a sharp knife in his hand.  But it was no knife:  it was just the isse.  And Diwata rubbed the isse on Lumabat’s belly, and with one downward stroke he opened the belly, and took out Lumabat’s intestines (betuka).

Then Lumabat himself became a god.  He was not hungry any more, for now his intestines were gone.  Yet if he wanted to eat, he had only to say, “Food, come now!” and at once all the fish were there, ready to be caught.  In the sky-country, fish do not have to be caught.  And Lumabat became the greatest of all the diwata.

Now, when Lumabat left home with his brothers and sisters, one sister and three brothers remained behind.  The brother named Wari felt sad because Lumabat had gone away.  At last he decided to follow him.  He crossed the sea, and reached the border of the sky, which immediately began to make the opening and shutting motions.  But Wari was agile, like his brother Lumabat; and he jumped quick, just like Lumabat, and got safe into heaven.  Following the same path that his brother had taken, he reached the same house.  And again Diwata took the isse, and attempted to open Wari’s belly; but Wari protested, for he did not like to have his intestines pulled out.  Therefore the god was angry at Wari.

Yet Wari staid on in the house for three days.  Then he went out on the atad [55] that joined the front and back part of the gods’ house, whence he could look down on the earth.  He saw his home town, and it made him happy to look at his fields of sugarcane and bananas, his groves of betel and cocoanuts.  There were his bananas ripe, and all his fruits ready to be plucked.  Wari gazed, and then he wanted to get back to earth again, and he began to cry; for he did not like to stay in heaven and have his intestines taken out, and he was homesick for his own town.