[28] There are about 127,000 Ifugaos, nearly all living in the subprovince of Ifugao. They are divided into a large number of hereditary clans, each of which has its own social and political organization. They are an agricultural people, and have developed their great stone-faced terraced rice fields to an extent probably not equaled elsewhere in the world. I do not believe that the physical type, language, or culture of these people is wholly a native development. The evidence seems to indicate that the present-day Ifugaos are the result of mixture, perhaps one or more thousand years ago, of several widely different native types with an incoming people of high culture. Indications seem to point to the highlands of Burma as the original home of this highly-cultured people, but this is a supposition that will require proof. Within historic times the Ifugaos have been almost entirely free from mixture of any sort. [29] 1.--"The Religious Beliefs of the Kiángan Ifugaos," a manuscript of some 300 pages, by Juan Fernandez Villaverde, translated and annotated by myself with the assistance of Mr. John M. Garvan. 2.--"The Religion of the Kiángan Ifugaos," a manuscript of 350 pages, by Roy Franklin Barton, with notes by myself. 3.--Unpublished notes. "The Religion of the Central Ifugaos," a manuscript of about 300 pages, by myself. [30] The subprovince of Ifugao may be divided into five general culture areas which can be also considered as religious districts. These are: Kiángan Ifugao, Western Ifugao, and Central Ifugao, speaking the Pure Ifugao dialect; and Alímît Ifugao and Mayóyao Ifugao, speaking the Sub-Ifugao dialect. (Plate I.) Very little is known of the religion of Alímît Ifugao and Mayóyao Ifugao, and they will not be further discussed in this paper. [31] Or búling (?). [32] Dáwi (?). [33] It can only be seen at this point for the reason that the earth beneath and the blue-stone underfacing of Kabúnian immediately above cut off the view. Ifugao astronomical knowledge, plus the circular nature of the horizon and the apparent slope of the whitish band above it, has doubtless given rise to this belief in a celestial globe surrounding the universe. [34] The Ifugaos have no belief, that I have ever been able to discover, as to the origin of the universe. To their minds it has always existed and will always continue to exist.