The sacrifice of Igon.--One year the crops failed, there was much sickness, and everything went wrong. Then Wígan remembered the advice of Maknóngan, and he told his sons to procure an animal for the sacrifice. They caught a rat and sacrificed it, but the evil conditions were not remedied. Then they went out into the forest and captured a large snake and sacrificed it to the gods, but the disease and crop failure still continued. Then Wígan said: "The sacrifice is not great enough, for the gods do not hear! Take your brother Igon, who has no wife, and sacrifice him!" So they bound Igon, and sacrificed him, and called upon the gods. And Maknóngan came, and all the other great gods, to the feast. And they took away the sickness, and filled the granaries with rice, and increased the chickens, the pigs, and the children. Then Maknóngan said to the people: "It is well, but you have committed an evil in spilling human blood and have thereby brought war and fighting into the world. Now you must separate to the north, south, east, and west, and not live together any more. And when ye have need to sacrifice to the gods, do not offer rats, snakes, or your children, but take pigs and chickens only." And one of the sons of Wígan went to the north, and one to the south, and one to the east, and one to the west; and from them are descended the peoples of the Earth World, who fight and kill one another to this day because of the sacrifice of Igon. Many other illustrations might be given of the differences between the Central and Kiángan Ifugao religious conceptions, but the above will suffice for the purposes of the present paper. [66] One more type of Ifugao origin myth merits our attention before we come to the conclusion. This type consists of the myths invented to explain the origin of the ancient Chinese jars, bronze gongs, amber-agate beads, and other rare articles of foreign manufacture on which the Ifugaos place a high value, and the origin of which they do not know. Many of these objects have been in the possession of the people for at least several hundred years. They were probably brought into the Islands by Chinese traders centuries before the coming of the Spaniards, and gradually found their way to the Ifugaos through the medium of their cursory commerce with the surrounding peoples. [67] One of these myths, explaining the origin of three well-known jars, runs as follows. LEGEND CONCERNING BANGGÍLÎT OF HINAGÁNGAN, AND THE JARS THAT HE BROUGHT FROM THE VILLAGE OF SOULS [68] A long time ago, before the coming of the Spaniards, there lived at Hinagángan a man called Banggílît. He was a wealthy man, possessing four rice granaries and a very large house; but he was not a priest. His constant desire was to hunt in the forest.