Lumawig is the central figure of Bontoc religion, both the supreme deity invoked in prayer at the chono feast and the culture-hero of legend. Myth makes him the second of the three sons of Kabunian, the sky-god; he alone chose to leave his father's fields in the sky and descend to the Bontoc valley, where he married a local woman and gave the people the arts of settled life: wet-rice terracing and irrigation, hunting, headhunting, and the cycle of ceremonies and customary law. He is closely associated with the towns of Bontoc, Sadanga and Sagada, where episodes of his earthly career are localized. Because the Bontoc sometimes address him by his father's title, the names Lumawig and Kabunian are partly interchangeable in ordinary speech.