Set in mythic time, this is a story of young children who were siblings and their uncle, a warrior named Dinagye-an and his partner Dehunajun. The children could not produce pulp juice from sago palms. An old woman approached the children for food. The children were mistreated by their uncle. In an act of pity, the old woman brought the children to the upper part of the mountain where she miraculously transformed their boiled water into meat. Then, the old woman approached the uncle of the children to ask food from him, but she was shamed (read: not recognized as a human being) and not given food. The power of lightning (anit) then struck the couple and it seems as if they had committed incest taboo for lightning is associated with disorder (see Blust). Out of this awesome power of nature, the Manobo split into the mountainworld and seaworld. Various life forms emerged on earth. The greedy couple was washed away from the river upstream to the border of the cosmos downstream where they were separated. The female crocodile cried in despair over the loss of his partner and this nostalgic, plaintive cry in the wilderness is a cry for human union that the myth allegorizes. The cry is simulated in the lip-valley flute that men play solo during their free time (click on the Dehunajen audio-visual above).