Tales or the Mythical Period 59 



jar bilibili which always salutes the visitors, go first; and you my jar 

 ginlasan follow, and you malayo and tadogan and you gumtan." 1 So 

 they went first to Natpangan, and Gawigawen and the people followed 

 them, and also eighteen young girls who were Gawigawen's concubines 

 went also. 



Not long after they arrived in Natpangan and Iwaginan and the 

 other people went to attend the pakdlon, and also many people from 

 the other towns. When all whom they had invited arrived they 

 agreed how much Gawigawen should pay for his wife. Aponibalagen 

 told them to fill the balaua 2 eighteen times with valuable things. So the 

 balaua was filled. Not long after they ate and when they had finished 

 they went to the yard and they played on gansas and danced. Iwaginan 

 took the skirts and gave one to Nagten-ngaEyan of Kapanikiyan and 

 they danced. 3 When she danced she looked like the spindle. She did 

 not go around, but always moving and the water from the river went up 

 into the town and the striped fishes bit her heels. Not long after they 

 stopped dancing and Gimbagonan was jealous and she said "Ala, give 

 me the skirt and I will danc3 next." "Do not say that Gimbagonan, 

 for it is shameful for us," he answered her. Not long after he gave the 

 cloth to Dakandokan of Pakapsowan. She danced with Algaba of Da- 

 gala. Not long after they finished dancing and Iwaginan made Aponl- 

 bolinayen and Balogaygayan dance. He often went to fight in the 

 enemies towns. Not long after Aponlbolinayen went down from the 

 house and the sunshine vanished when she appeared. She danced 

 with Balogaygayan and when she moved her feet the water from the 

 river went up again into the town and the fish bit at her heels as they did 

 before. After they stopped Iwaginan made his wife Gimbagonan dance 

 and she was happy when she danced with Aponibalagen. When they 

 danced the big jars around Gimbagonan's neck made more noise than 

 the gansas and the jars said "Kltol, kltol, kanltol, inka, inka, inkantol." 



As soon as they finished dancing the people said, " The best thing 

 to do is to go home, for we have been here three months now." "We will 

 take Aponibolinayen" said Dinawagan to the people who lived in the 

 same town with her and she spoke to Aponibalagen. So they prepared 

 rice and coconut soaked together and wrapped in leaves, and a cake 

 made of rice flour and coconut shaped like a tongue, a rice cake, which 

 was fried for Aponibolinayen's provision on the road. "You who live 

 in the other towns who were invited, do not go home yet for we are going 



1 Each type of jar has its special name. 



'See p. 12. 



* This was the tadek. See p. II, note 3. 



