there are three version of why the sky is high first the tagalog version...its all about the two brothers named daskol and ingat one day daskol pound a palay he was irritated because every time he raise the pestle higher ,and every timehe hit the sky ,the sky would be raised.in his hurry daskol did not notice that the sky is rising.when he finished pounding he looked up and discovers that the sky had risen
