6 Traditions of the Tinguian 



afternoon the sun again went home, but first he went to ***"«• 

 river He went home when he had caught the big fish for them to eat - 

 both those married. And when he arrived in their house he found 

 Aponlbolinayen, who was eooking, and he saw that she stall broke up the 

 fish-Sick, which she cooked. Ini-init asked her, "What are you doing 

 with that stick which you are breaking, which you put in the jar? and 

 Aponibolinayen replied, " I cook for us both to eat," and the sun laughed, 

 because she cooked the stick. "You throw away that stack which you 

 are cooking; this fish which I caught with the net is what you are to cook, 

 "is not eatable that fish-stick which you eook," he said. Aponiboh- 

 nayen said, "You shall see by and by, when we eat, what it will become 

 Y*u hang up the fish which you caught, which we shall eat to-morrow. 

 "Hurry up! You throw away that stick which you cook, it has no use. 

 Even though you eook for one month, it will not become soft, and I do 

 noTthink it will become good," said Ini-init. Apombolmayen said, 

 "No you hurry and hang that fish which you caught with the net, be- 

 cause it is nearly cooked - the rice and the fish." Not long after she 

 toot out the rice from the jar, and she uncovered her cooked fish which 

 wTa stick When the sun saw that the fish came from the stick which 

 Te cooked he was surprised and he asked her how she made the stack, 

 ShfccLd, tuJto fish. Aponibolinayen said, You hurry come 

 and eat for I have finished taking out the nee and fish. 



Not long after that the sun went truly in front of her to the place of 

 the rice and cooked fish, and they ate. 



Not long after they finished and Aponibolinayen washed and when 

 she had finished washing she put away those things which they >£*A 

 Ini-init made trouble because of the stick which became a fish. He again 

 iked Aponlbolinayen how she made the stick into fish, and Apomboh- 



woman who practices magic in Kaodanan," and Ini-mit said, Yes, I 

 teethe rich woman who practices magic in Kaodanan, who sometimes 

 £L much power, who changes, who has no equal." Apombchnayen «*, 

 "Why do you still ask if you know?" "I ask becau » I want to ta sure, 

 even though I know you have much power," said Ini-mit. If that is 

 tme do not ask again," she said. Not long after while they were talk- 

 h^ they went to sleep, and when it began to be early "f^,**"* 

 ^nt Jmake the sun on all the world; when they had £jM ££ 

 he went to shine. Aponibolinayen staid in the house. Whe ut came 

 afternoon, the sun went down and he went directly to fish in the n«, 

 for the fish which they ate -the two who were married. Not long 



1 See p. 17, note 3. 



