wife came, and Baluga lay down very still; when Dalioya walked near him, he waked up and caught her.  Dalioya said, “Let me go.”  Baluga said, “No, I will not let you go.”  She said, “If you come with me to get my life, I will be very glad.”  “Yes,” said he.  Then they went down in the ground where is the spirit’s home.  When they got there the spirits were sleeping.  Dalioya said, “Take that green bamboo cup, because they put my life in it.”  Baluga took it and they went up on the ground.  One spirit waked up and said, “There are Baluga and his wife walking in our vine way.”  All the spirits ran to catch them.  When the spirits were going up in the vine, Baluga cut the vine with his bolo.  The spirits fell down.  Baluga and his wife went home.  As soon as they reached their home, they made a party.  There were many people there on that big day.  They were drinking basi, eating rice and meat, and singing and dancing because they were having a good time.  That party lasted two days.  After that the people went home.  Baluga and Dalioya went to cut their rice.

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The alan [365] once found the afterbirth outside the town and made it a real baby whose name was Sayen.

Sayen lived in Benben.  He was very brave and often went to fight without companions.

He wanted to marry Danipan who lives in Kadalayapan, but she did not wish.  She hid; so Sayen married her servant, thinking she was Danipan.  The name of the servant was Laey.  Sayen took her home.  They had one baby.  One day Sayen was making a plow under the house.  Laey was in the house with her baby.  She was singing in the house to her baby.  “Sayen thinks I am Danipan, but I am Laey, Laey no aglage-le-gey-ley.”  Sayen heard the song and said to himself that his wife was not Danipan.  He went up into the house and said, “Take off your upper arm beads, and in the morning you will go to the fields with your baby, because I will go there to plow.”  She said, “Yes.”  In the morning he went there.  He went to cut down the bamboo bridge.  At noon his wife carried food to him.  She took her baby with her.  When she reached the bamboo bridge it fell with her and they fell into the water.  Sayen went back to his house.  When he got there, he took his headaxe, spear, and shield, and he went to Kadalayapan.  When he got there, he began to kill the people of the town.  When he had killed many people the lakay [366] called Danipan, “Come out, Sayen is killing many people of the town, because you did something bad to him.”  She came out to Sayen and said to him, “Do not kill all the people, leave some of them so I can go to borrow fire from them.”  Sayen answered her, “Take the betel-nut in my bag and cut it in two pieces for me to eat, for I am very tired.”  She took the betel-nut from his bag and cut it in two pieces, and Sayen chewed the betel-nut.  Sayen spat on some of the dead people and made them alive again and he married Danipan and took her to Benben.