Long ago, the people of Palau did not know how to deliver a baby, except by slicing open the mother�s stomach with a bamboo knife.  Unfortunately, the mother of the child would always perish.

Mengidabrutkoel, a spider in the form of a young man, came from Peleliu to Ngiwal, where he took a young woman named Turang as his bride.  When the time came for the midwives of the village to slice open her stomach and deliver her baby, the husband refused to let the women near her.  While they stormed outside of the house, the spider supervised the first natural delivery of a child.

	Bairulechau - Ngerchelong Bai Stone Monoliths
	Chuab - Creation Story of Belau
	Miladeldil - Woman Who Returns from Death
	Ngemelis - Turtle's Egg Laying Cycle
	Ngerchemai - The Canoe or the Turtle
	Mesekiu - Dugong (Sea Mermaid)
	Stone Figure of the Woman & Child
	Ngerot - Discovery of Palauan Money
	Fish Bearing Tree of Ngibtal - Breadfruit Tree Story
	Osilek er a Ulong
	Surech & Dulei

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