B118. The rest on the ground is made by an owl.. 24.25.

A character who can't understand heaven or returns from heaven to earth becomes an owl.

Ibanas, Murut, Dusun, Palawan, Bagobo.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Ibana [at the request of the Month, Scoop married him, gave birth to a radiant boy; four years later, Months wanted to return to heaven, Sovka said that she would have nothing to eat there, spouses quarreled; shared the child, Month took the upper part with him, made stars out of it; The scoop kept the bottom, made it all kinds of trees; the scoop still screams at the full moon; (hereinafter the story Cuckoos, Calao and Nightjar)]: Sandin 1964 in Macdonald 2005:76; murut [Puok was the wife of the supreme god Kohlong, whose face can be seen on the moon disk, lived with him on the moon; taking insects out of her husband's hair, dropped the comb to the ground; volunteered to follow him herself in her winged feather clothes; on the ground, the man gave her the comb, invited her into the house; she told how K. determines the fate of all people; K. punished her for her chatter, her body became heavy, she could not fly to the moon; clothes grew to her body, K. became an owl, screams at night, calling her husband]: Wooley 1928, No. 20:376-378; dusun [Eared The Owl (Puak) was the sweetheart of the Month; the sky was close to the ground, seven Suns were shining; the pregnant woman felt sick from the heat; her husband went to sunrise, shot six Suns with a wind gun; the seventh ran, taking from The sky is now high; the Long-eared Owl came down from the roof of the house at that time to pick up the crest that had fallen to the ground, could not return to heaven, and has been screaming plaintively when the moon comes out]: Evans 1914: 433 (=1923; retelling in MacDonald 2005:79; Ho 1967, No. 16:220); palawan [Married Sovka for a month; promised to return from fishing in a day; if he is away for two days, then he was bitten by a poisonous fish; A month comes back in two days, the wife is in bed, does not listen to him, repeats that the Month is dead, bitten by a poisonous fish; A month cooks and eats caught fish, shoots into the sky with a sarbakan, making a chain of darts, climbs it; seeing her husband in the sky and the fish cooked, the wife believes that it was the Month, she cries; animals and birds are consistently called to deliver her by the Month, planting her for themselves on its back; a hornet rises into the air, but sees a Solanum inequilaterale bush, goes down to it, says that this is the sky; a monitor lizard leaves a woman on top of a dry tree; a dung beetle in a latrine Raji; Osprey picks up for the Month; when he goes swimming, he warns his wife that if she looks and sees kuhung bulan mushrooms (below), she should not go down, they are mushrooms, not him; she looks, sees mushrooms, thinks it's a Month, jumps down, crashes, turns into a scoop, screams into a full moon ever since]: Macdonald 2005:77-78.

Taiwan - Philippines. Bagobo (Mindanao): Benedict 1913, No. 2 [Lumabat quarreled with his sister (who has become the mistress of the lower world), decides to go to heaven, takes siblings with him; on the way, stones and trees ask where they go; those who answered themselves became stones, trees; as soon as people approach, the edge of the sky begins to clang against the ends of the earth like jaws; L. slipped through, everyone else is shredded, turned into stones sand; L. sees sinners suffering in the sky; Diwata carved his insides, making him God himself (the gods do not feel hungry); when food is needed, just call for food, fish appears; L. became the chief God; his brother Wari, who remained on earth, followed, also slipped between the ends of the earth and the sky; but did not want his insides to be taken out, cried when he saw his house and field below; God descends him on rope with dogs and food; tells you not to eat until he reaches the ground; otherwise the dogs will gnaw, he will let go of the rope; as it happened, V. fell on a tree, became a kulago bird (like an owl- barn owl, Aluco candidus), whose cry portends bad things; she has feathers, hair, hair of all birds, animals, people; three dogs from the sky ran to the house of V.'s sister and two brothers; sister and brother got married, they many descendants (retelling beginning in Raats 1970:38, brief in Hatt 1949:79)]: 21-23; Cole 1913 [=1916:135-138; Lum√°Bet and his people are chasing a deer, they ran around the earth 9 times, finally killed deer; L. ordered his father to be killed, revived every time; he grew younger and smaller every time, eventually became a child; L. and his men went overseas, where the sky constantly rises above the ground and then hits her; L. promises that if Heaven lets him through, it can eat the last one; the last one trying to run under the edge of the sky is crushed; L.'s son went to look for his father; the bees took him to heaven to father; of those who came with L. to heaven, one refused to have the celestials take his insides out of him and he became immortal, asked him to be returned home; he was lowered upside down on a chain and leaves of grass; reaching land, it turned into an owl]: 126-127.