Lumiang Cave

The Lumiang cave is home to one hundred historic coffins. Stacked one on the pinnacle of the other, those coffins shape an attention-grabbing wall at the doorway of the cave that rises 9 layers high. It has been anticipated that the oldest coffins are around 500 years old.

The coffins had been positioned at the doorway to shield them from the elements, however withinside the identical token, so they might get hold of daytime that wards off evil spirits that could disturb those souls’ everlasting rest. The coffins are very strange, as they're pretty small for a full-grown adult. It’s believed the corpses had been laid withinside the coffins in a fetal position. It becomes finished in order that the deceased ought to go out with lifestyles similar to those they entered.

Most of the coffins are designed from a hollowed-out phase of a tree trunk, with a lid firmly secured to the coffin by a rudimentary, however powerful latch. A few others are thinner and longer, and encompass wood planks nailed together. Some coffins show an alternatively simple design, even as others showcase stylized carvings of lizards, which characterize toughness and fertility.

Location: Sagada