Banggílît visited all of the towns there. He worked in the rice fields and they gave him four jars as his wages. Then his host said to him: "Return home now, for you have been here four days, which, according to the usage of the Earth World, are four years." "Yes," answered Banggílît, "I wish to go home now, as I am homesick for my family. You have been very good to me, for you have given me wages for my work." And the host said: "It was a gift; not wages, but a gift, that I gave you," and he led the way and pointed out to Banggílît a ladder. "Go down that ladder, and in a short time you will arrive at your house," he said. Banggílît started to go down, but one of the jars struck heavily against the ladder and was broken. He went down the ladder and at last arrived in the top of a betel-nut tree. He slid down the trunk of the tree to the ground, and the chickens were crowing and it was just dawn. And he looked at his surroundings and exclaimed: "Why this is my own house!" His relatives came out and said: "Who are you?" and he replied: "This is my house." They looked at him closely and cried: "Well now, it is Banggílît who has been gone these four years!" And they sat down and talked long together. He showed them the jars, and they asked: "Where did you get those?" And he answered: "I brought them from the Sky World," and they were afraid and went to look for the ladder but it was no longer there. [69] The above myth may well have been invented by some man who, unknown to his relatives and friends, wandered across the mountains into Lepanto or Benguet and returned after four years with the jars in question. Hundreds of myths and legends of this type are current among the Ifugaos. No representative collection of Philippine myths has yet been made, and the present paper can only be considered a beginning. I hope to be able to continue the work. NOTES [1] Read before The Philippine Academy, October 2, 1912. The paper is intended as an introduction to a series of more complete studies in Philippine mythology and religion. [2] A complete bibliography cannot be given within the limits of this paper, but a number of the most important printed titles and manuscripts have been cited. [3] Blair and Robertson, The Philippine Islands. Cleveland (1906), 37; (1907), 48. [4] This Journal (1906), 1, 812-818. Many plates illustrating Ilongot types and culture are given. [5] The Philippine Islands and Their People. New York (1898), 362-434. [6] A typewritten manuscript of 60 pages, entitled "The Hampángan Mangyans of Mindoro" by Dr. Fletcher Gardner. U. S. A. (1905). In the records of the division of ethnology, Bureau of Science, Manila. [7] This Journal, Sec. D (1912), 7, 135-156. [8] Loc. cit., 76-122. [9] Smithsonian Misc. Colls. (Paper No. 1700), 48, 514-558. [10] Loc. cit., 109-111.