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Overview
Lumabet speaks at one day old and performs wonders that cause people to believe Manama sent him. Hunting a white deer, he circles the world nine times, each night renewing his food by planting banana and sweet-potato skins. He later repeatedly restores his killed father with a waved headband, making him progressively smaller until he resembles a boy. These are narrated wonders rather than documented acts or ritual instructions.
He gathers followers into a house that accommodates them despite its small appearance and leads them toward the meeting of earth and sky. Those who refuse become animals and buso. The sky opens and shuts like jaws; Lumabet negotiates passage by conceding the last traveler, whom it catches along with the preceding man’s long knife.
His absent son later reaches the sky through help from white bees and a golden gun. Cole identifies the gun as a later storyteller’s element. Another follower who cannot accept immortal life is lowered back to earth and becomes an owl. The collection preserves these connected episodes while its notes distinguish editorial interpretations from the tale itself.
Origins & earliest records
Bagobo storytelling, Philippines; particular collected witness
Records & interpretation
Complete relevant story, collection preface, regional introduction and attached notes directly read.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Philippine Folk Tales
Bagobo; Lumabet, pp. 135–138; notes13–15
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1916)
Bagobo section. Lumabet, pp. 135–138; notes13–15
Full story, relevant regional introduction and preface read; attached notes checked. Collection mediates oral accounts and earlier print sources without a named individual narrator here. No scientific taxonomy inferred.
References
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- Historical collected narrative and editorial notesCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), Lumabet, pp. 135–138; notes13–15Research access: 2026-10-05
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