Traditions of the Tinguian (Volume 14)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Excerpt: ... TALES OF THE MYTHICAL PERIOD We go to take greens, sister-in-law Dinay, perhaps the siksiklat1 will taste good. I have heard that the siksiklat is good, said Aponlbolinayen. They went to get her siksiklat. When they arrived at the place of small trees, which they thought was the place of the siksiklat, they looked. Aponlbolinayen was the first who looked. As soon as she began to break off the siksiklat which she saw she did not break any more, but the siksiklat encircled and carried her up. When they reached the sky (literally the up), the siksiklat placed her below the alosip* tree. She sat for a long time. Soon she heard the crowing of the rooster. She stood up and went to see the rooster which crowed. She saw a spring. She saw it was pretty because its sands were oday* and its gravel pagatpat * and the top of the betel-nut tree was gold, and the place where the people step was a large Chinese plate which was gold. She was surprised, for she saw that the house was small. She was afraid and soon began to climb the betel-nut tree, and she hid herself. The man who owned the house, which she saw near the well,6 was Ini-init -- the sun. But he was not in the place of his house, because he went out and went above to make the sun, because that was his work in the daytime. And the next day Aponlbolinayen saw him, who went out of his house, because he went again to make the sun. And Aponlbolinayen went after him to his house, because she saw the man, who owned the house, who left. When she arrived in the house, she quickly cooked, because she was very hungry. When she finished cooking, she took the stick used in roasting fish and cooked it, and the fish-stick which she cooked became cut-up fish, because she used her magic power.8 When she finished to cook the fish, she took out rice fr...