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Origin of the mountains.—The first son of Wígan, called Kabigát, went from the sky region Húdog to the Earth World to hunt with dogs. As the earth was then entirely level, his dogs ran much from one side to another, pursuing the quarry, and this they did without Kabigát hearing their barking. In consequence of which, it is reported that Kabigát said: “I see that the earth is completely flat, because there does not resound the echo of the barking of the dogs.[37]” After becoming pensive for a little while, he decided to return to the heights of the Sky World. Later on he came down again with a very large cloth, and went to close the exit to the sea of the waters of the rivers, and so it remained closed. He returned again to Húdog, and went to make known to Bon͠gábon͠g that he had closed the outlet of the waters. Bon͠gábon͠g answered him: “Go thou to the house of the Cloud, and of the Fog, and bring them to me.” For this purpose he had given permission beforehand to Cloud and Fog, intimating to them that they should go to the house of Baiyuhíbi,[38] and so they did. Baiyuhíbi brought together his sons Tumiok, Dumalálu, Lum-údul, Mumbatánol, and Inaplíhan, and he bade them to rain without ceasing for three days. Then Bon͠gábon͠g called to X ... and to Man͠giuálat, and so they ceased. Wígan said, moreover, to his son Kabigát: “Go thou and remove the stopper that thou hast placed on the waters,” and so he did. And in this manner, when the waters that had covered the earth began to recede, there rose up mountains and valleys, formed by the rushing of the waters.[39] Then Bon͠gábon͠g called Mumbá’an that he might dry the earth, and so he did.