How did separate the persons and the spirits between the Hani-Akha

According to the Akha his creative god was Apoemiyeh, but in his myths it seems relegating the creative work in other agents. Between they stand out the god Jabioelah, manager of creating the world, and Dummio, the first person who lived on this world, ancestor therefore of the Alhas and of the whole humanity. During twelve generations there arose creatures that were not human not even spirits, until there arose Tangpang (Taporang in Chinese). (1)

Tangpang is for the Hani the creator of the animals, as it describes "the ancestor Taporang"

"Spent nine months, one night Taporang suddenly had the sensation that the whole quite strong body was hurting him. On having opened the eyes to see that it was happening, it discovered that on his belly, his legs, his arms, up to the top of the foot and the end of the fingers it was full of a few small things. Taporang did not know that it was that, scared all his body trembled. It threw to the soil these small things that existed on his body. Spent a little bit, these small things that had fallen down to the soil transformed into tigers, jabalíes, snakes and other animals. Taporang continued looking fixedly very scared turned to the hand repeatedly. These small things that were in the ground, on having seen her waving the hand, thought that it was frightening them, and one after other they moved away running." (2)

The spirits and the persons, on the other hand, agreed to divide the universe as the form in which Taprang was dying. She died mouth below, what she was showing that the human beings had to live in the underworld, but before the spirits realized, they turned round him, remaining in the surface of the ground. Also they managed to choose the activity time, and chose the hours of the day. "The spirits moved back to the underground world, where everything is on the contrary. When in the exterior it is dry, below it rains, and vice versa. The spirits go out of fighter to the exterior world shooting the people and causing him numerous problems."

(1) Jim Goodman. - Meet the Akhas. White Lotus, 1996.
(2) Pedro Ceinos Arcones. - Legends of the Goddess Mother (and other myths of goddesses and women of the peoples of China). Madrid, 2007

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