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.
you can dodge my spear I am sure you will get your father.”  So he threw his spear at him and Kanag used his power and he disappeared and Gawigawen was surprised.  “You are the next.”  Then Kanag used magic so that when he threw his spear against him it would go directly to the body of Gawigawen.  As soon as he threw Gawigawen laid down.  Kanag ran to him and cut off his five heads and there was one left, and Gawigawen said to him, “Do not cut off my last head and I will go and show you where your father is.”  So Kanag did not cut off the last head, and they went to see his father.  The skin of his father had been used to cover a drum, and his hair was used to decorate the house, and his head was placed by the gate of the town, and the body was put below the house.

As soon as Kanag had gathered together the body of his father he used his power and he said, “I whip my perfume banawes and directly he will say Wes.” [222] His father said, “Wes.”  Not long after he said, “I whip my perfume alakadakad and directly he will stand up.”  So his father stood beside him.  After that he whipped his perfume dagimonau and his father woke up and he was surprised to see the little boy by him and he said, “Who are you?  How long I slept.”  “I am your son.  ‘How long I slept,’ you said.  You were dead and Gawigawen inherited you.  Take my headaxe and cut off the remaining head of Gawigawen.”  So he took the headaxe of Kanag and went to the place where Gawigawen stood.  When he struck the headaxe against Gawigawen it did not hurt him and Aponitolau slipped, and his son laughed at him.  “What is the matter with you, father?  Gawigawen looks as if he were dead, for he has only one head left.”  He took the headaxe from his father and he went to Gawigawen and he cut off the remaining head.  Not long after they used magic so that the headaxes and spears went to kill all the people in the town.  So the spears and headaxes went among the people and killed all of them, and Aponitolau swam in the blood and his son stood on the blood.  “What is the matter with you, father, that you swim in the blood?  Can’t you use your power so you don’t have to swim?” Then he took hold of him and lifted him up.  As soon as all the people were killed they used their power so that all the heads and valuable things went to Kadalayapan.

Aponibolinayen went to look at the lawed vine behind the stove and it looked like a jungle it was so green, so she believed that her son was alive.  Not long after all the heads arrived in Kadalayapan and Aponibolinayen was surprised.  Not long after she saw her husband and her son and she shouted and the world smiled.  Not long after they went up into their house and summoned all the people and told them to invite all the people in other towns for Kanag had returned from fighting, and had his father.  So the people went to invite their relatives.  Not long after the people from other towns arrived and they danced.  They were all glad that Aponitolau was alive again, and they went to see the heads of Gawigawen who killed Aponitolau.

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