Iha parte Timor-Leste sentrál, fatuk no rai husi foho Mundo Perdido nian ne’ebé mós bolu Wai Nete Ba’i (bee sa'e, fatuk lulik), ema konta mak hanesan kulit ida ne’ebé iha bee iha nia okos, bee ne’e sae mai liu rai husi tasi. Bainhira bee sai mai, bee masin mak nakfila ba bee morin. Mézmuke bee fó moris nia la iha forsa hodi nakfila ba moris. Moris ne’e presiza buat ruma seluk hanesan loro matan ka nia forsa loro matan nian - ahi -  hodi nakfila ba moris. Bainhira bee sai mai husi rai okos nakukun to’o rai naroman, potensiál moris nian ne’ebé bee kaer nakfila ba moris liu husi forsa ahi nian.

Fatin ida ne’ebé importante liu iha foho Mundo Perdido nia tutun mak fatin ida, ne’ebé uluk bee-matan ida naran Wai Taka (Bee Taka). Fatin ne’e hanesan odamatan ba mundo seluk. Liu tiha odamatan ne’e komandante forsa armada Portugés nian haruka sira nia elementu tenente Timoroan sira hetan treinamentu iha Maucau.  Liu tiha odamatan ba mundo seluk ne’e balun fila mai hanesan balada (animál) fuik (hodi balada sira nia kulit) no estraga ema nia to’os. Maibé iha momentu ida Portugés sira taka odamatan ne’e ho fatuk sementi nian.

Portugés sira mak bolu foho ne’e Mundo Perdido (ne’ebé ho lian Portugés mak  hanesan Rai Lakon) hafoin iha sékulu XX, ho lian inan povu nian bolu ho naran bar-barak depende uma lulik, lia inan no parte foho ne’ebé ita refere. Ohin loron Timoroan barak mos bolu foho ne’e Mundo Perdido. Nia naran seluk ema uza de'it iha kontestu serimoniál bainhira ema uza naran barak ne’ebé refere ba nia fatuk tutun sira no bee-matan tuir-tuir malu. 
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In east central Timor the rocks and soil of the Mundo Perdido[i] mountain range (also sometimes known as K: Wai Nete Watu Ba'i='rising water, sacred rock') are conceptualized as the skin beneath which water pools after rising up through the earth from the sea. As it rises, this salty water is transformed into fresh water. Whilst life giving, it does not yet have the necessary force to transform into life itself. Rather, life requires its activation by another element—the sun, or its associative force, fire. Emerging forth from the subterranean darkness into the light of the surface world, the life potential inherent in water is transformed into life itself by the power of fire. 

The most important site atop Mundo Perdido is a place, once a spring, called Wai Taka ('closed water') a powerful portal to the 'other world'. It was through this transitional space that Timorese lieutenants of the colonial Portuguese army were said to have been sent by their superiors to train in Macau. Entering this 'door' to the other world, some would later return to roam the peaks as men in animal costume, causing havoc for the gardens of the local population. Yet at some point the Portuguese closed 'the door', placing on the site a cemented mountain cairn. 

[i] Referred to as Mundo Perdido (literally 'lost world' in Portuguese) by the Portuguese in the early twentieth century, this mountain range is known by many local language names depending on your origin house, your language, and what part of the mountainous landscape you are referring to and why. In everyday conversation Timorese now also refer to this mountain as Mundo Perdido. Its other names are generally reserved for ritual use when many names referring to particular rocky peaks, features and springs are called out in succession.