for I wish to marry you.  If you do not wish to come I will call my companion stars, and give you to them to eat.”  Aponitolau was frightened, for he knew that the woman who was talking was a spirit.  “If that is what you say, and you do not wish me to go and see Aponibolinayen and you wish to be married to me, it is all right,” said Aponitolau to her.  Not long after the stars dropped the galong-galong [238] of gold which Gaygayoma had ordered to be made.  As soon as they dropped it Aponitolau and Gaygayoma got in it, and were drawn up, and soon they were there.

As soon as they arrived he saw one of the stars come to the place where they were, and it was a very big star, for it was Bagbagak.  “Someone is coming where we are,” said Aponitolau to Gaygayoma.  “Do not be afraid; he is my father,” said Gaygayoma.  “Those stars eat people if you do anything wrong to them.”  Not long after Bagbagak reached the place where they were.  “It is good for you Aponitolau that you wished to follow my daughter here.  If you had not we would have eaten you,” he said.  Aponitolau was frightened.  “Yes, I followed her here, but I am ashamed before you who live here, for you are powerful,” he said.  While they were talking Bagbagak went back home.

After he had lived with Gaygayoma five months she had him prick between her last fingers and a little baby popped out, and it was a beautiful baby boy.  “What shall we call our son?” said Aponitolau.  “We are going to call him Tabyayen, because it is the name of the people who used to live above,” said Gaygayoma.  So they called him Tabyayen, and they used their power so that the baby grew all the time.  Soon he was big.  After three months, “Now Gaygayoma, let me go back down and see Aponibolinayen of Kadalayapan.  I think she is searching for me.  I will return soon, for you two are my wives,” said Aponitolau, but Gaygayoma would not let him go.  “Ala, let me go and I will return soon,” he said again.  “Ala, you go, but you come back here soon.  I will send the stars to eat you if you do not wish to return,” said Gaygayoma to him.  “Yes,” he said.  Not long after he rode again in the galong-galong, and the stars followed, and they went down.  Aponitolau wanted all of them to go to Kadalayapan, but he went alone and the stars and Gaygayoma and the boy went up.

Not long after Aponitolau said, “Wes” at the entrance to the yard of their house in Kadalayapan.  Aponibolinayen got up from her mat and she had not eaten for a long time.  When she looked at him she was very happy.  Aponitolau saw that she was thin.  “Why are you so thin, Aponibolinayen?” said Aponitolau.  “I have not eaten since you went away.  Where have you been so long?  I thought that you were dead.”  “No, I did not die, but Gaygayoma took me up into the sky because they were the ones who spoilt our sugar cane.  She would not let me come back any more, and she took me up.  I did not want to go with her, but she threatened to feed me to the stars who were her companions.  So I was afraid, and I went with her, for she is a spirit.”