Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

Awig went to wash his hair in the spring.  When he finished washing his hair he went home.  When he reached his house he made Ayo louse him.  While Ayo was lousing him the milk from her breasts dropped on Awig’s legs.  “Why, Ayo, does the milk from your breasts drop on my legs?” he asked.  He sat up and asked them many times until they brought the baby.  When they brought the baby, “We are going home to Natpangan now, because it does not do me any good to try and hide you.”  He took them home and soon he made a bamboo bench by the gate of the town where the people passed when they went to the well, and he placed the baby on it.  Then they built balaua, for he wanted to see the father of the baby.  Not long after he commanded some one to go and get betel-nuts and he oiled them.  He sent them to go and invite all the people in the world.  When they arrived none of them wanted the baby to recognize them.  When the baby did not go to any of them, he sent someone to get a betel-nut to send to Dagdagalisit whom they had not invited.  As soon as the betel-nut arrived at the place where Dagdagalisit lived “Dagdagalisit came to Natpangan for Awig makes balaua,” it said.  “I cannot go, for I am ashamed, because I have no good clothes,” he said, for his clout was the dried bark of a banana tree.  “If you do not come I will grow on your big pig,” it said, and the betel-nut jumped on the back of the big pig, and it began to squeal.  When his big pig began squealing loudly, because the tree grew on his back, Dagdagalisit said, “I come now.”  Not long after he went.  When he came walking up the trail from the spring the baby saw him, and went to him, and Awig saw him carrying the baby.  “I did not think it would happen this way to Aponibolinayen,” he said.  Then he sent Aponibolinayen away, and he made her carry the poor house box that they used to put the fish in which Dagdagalisit caught in the river.  “You carry the female pig so that you have something to eat by the river,” said Awig to Dagdagalisit.  So they went; Aponibolinayen carried the poor box and Awig took her beads and clothes off from her, and he gave her old clothes to use, and so they went.

When they were near the spring they threw away the things they carried, the female pig and poor box.  While they were walking near the town of Dagdagalisit, which was Kabenbenlan, Ayo saw the golden house.  “We must not walk by the side of the golden house, for I am ashamed before the man who owns it,” said Ayo to Dagdagalisit.  They were still walking and Ayo followed him.  As soon as they arrived at the ladder Dagdagalisit went upstairs and Ayo did not because she thought that Dagdagalisit did not own that house, and Dagdagalisit made her go up, and she did.  As soon as she arrived above Dagdagalisit went to get rice to give Ayo to cook.  “Cook this, Ayo, while I go to catch fish for us to eat,” he said, and he went.  As soon as he caught two fish he went home, and he left the dry bark of the

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