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following names: (a) LlgT, (b) Albaga of Dalaga, (c) Dagdaga- 

 llsit, (d) Ingiwan or Kagkagakag, (e) Ini-init, (f) Ling-giwan, (g) 

 Kadayadawan, (h) Wadagan, (i) Awig (?) 

 II. Aponlgawanl. Sister of Aponltolau and wife of Aponibalagen. 



III. Aponibolinayen. Daughter of Pagbokasan * cT and Ebang 9- of 

 Kaodanan. Wife of Aponltolau. 



Appears as (a) Ayo, (b) Dolimaman (?) . 



IV. Aponibalagen. Brother of Aponibolinayen, and husband of 

 Aponlgawanl; also appears as Awig. 



V. Kanag. Son of Aponltolau and Aponibolinayen. Appears as 



(a) Kanag kabagbagOwan, (b) Balokanag, (c) Dumanau, (d) 



Ilwisan, (e) also at times is identified with Dumalawi, his brother. 



VI. Dapillsan, wife of Kanag. 



VII. Dagolayan. Son of Aponibalagen and Aponlgawanl. Also 



appears as Dondonyan of Bagonan — the blood-clot child. 

 VIII. Alokotan. An old woman who acts as a medium. Her home is 

 at Nagbotobotan, where the rivers empty their waters into the 

 hole at the edge of the world. 

 IX. Gawigawen d\ A giant who owns the orange trees of Adasin. 

 X. Glambolan d\ A ten-headed giant. 



XI. Gaygay6ma. A star maiden who marries Aponltolau. The 

 daughter of Bagbagak cT , a big star, — and Slnag 9 , the moon — . 

 XII. Tabyayen. Son of Aponltolau and Gaygay6ma. Half brother 

 of Kanag. 



XIII. Kabkabaga-an. A powerful female spirit who falls in love with 

 Aponltolau. 



XIV. Asibowan. The maiden of GEgEnawan, who is related to the 

 spirit Kabonlyan. The mistress of Aponltolau. 



In consequence of modern rationalism there is a tendency on the 

 part of a considerable number of the Tinguian to consider these tales 

 purely as stories and the characters as fictitious, but the mass of the 

 people hold them to be true and speak of the actors as "the people who 

 lived in the first times." For the present we shall take their point of 

 view and shall try to reconstruct the life in ' ' the first times " as it appears 

 in the tales. 



The principal actors live in Kadalayapan and Kaodanan, 2 towns 

 which our chief story teller — when trying to explain the desire of 

 Kanag to go down and get fruit — assures us were somewhere in the air, 



1 Occasionally the storytellers become confused and give Pagbokasan as the father 

 of Aponltolau. 



* The town of Natpangan is several times mentioned as though it was the same 

 as Kaodanan. 



