Tales of the Mythical Period 51 



that all the jars had arrived where he was he fed them with betel-nut, 

 first covered with lowed l leaves. As soon as he had fed them he gave 

 them some salt. Not long after he went back home and he rode on a 

 carabao. 



When he arrived at their house he called to Aponibolinayen, but no 

 one answered him and he was surprised. So he hurried to the house 

 and he saw that Aponibolinayen was dead and he was grieved. He took 

 her in his lap and while her body was in his lap it began to sweat. He 

 used his power so that when he whipped 2 his perfume banawEs she said, 

 "Wes." When he whipped his perfume dagtmonau she awoke. When 

 he whipped his perfume allkadakad she stood up and said, "I told you 

 not to go, Aponltolau, but you went anyway. A big woman came here 

 and stole all my things and killed me. I don't know who she was." 

 Aponltolau called his mother and asked who it was and his mother 

 replied that it was Gimbangonan. So Aponltolau went to Natpangan. 

 "Why did you go to kill Aponibolinayen?" "I went to kill her for you 

 do not care for me any more." " I do not like you, for you are a very big 

 woman. Every time you step the floor is broken. If you come again 

 to Kadalayapan I will cut your head off. Do not come again to harm 

 Aponibolinayen." He went home to Kadalayapan and he divorced 

 Gimbangonan. 



Not long after they went to the pasture and they rode on the back 

 of a carabao. As soon as they arrived, all the jars rolled around 

 them and stuck out their tongues and Aponibolinayen was afraid, 

 for she feared the jars would eat them. The wide field was full of 

 jars. Aponltolau gave them betel-nut and lowed vine and salt. As soon 

 as they fed them they went back home. Not long after Aponibolinayen 

 said to Aponltolau, "We are going to Natpangan to visit my father and 

 mother," so they went. As soon as they arrived there Aponibolinayen 

 told her father and mother that Aponltolau had a pasture filled with 

 many different kinds of jars, in the place of Kabinalan. When they had 

 been in Natpangan ten days they returned home and Aponlbolinayen's 

 father and mother went with them and saw the jars. When they reached 

 the field where the jars were they were afraid that the jars would eat 

 them, but Aponltolau fed them. The father and mother of Aponiboli- 

 nayen were surprised for there were many valuable jars which filled the 

 wide field of Kabinalan. Not long after they went back home to Nat- 

 pangan. 



(Told by Angtan, a woman of Lagangilang.) 



1 Piper sp. 



1 Seep. 18, note 1. 



