Tales of the Mythical Period 8i 



Ayo went to the spring. When she went she met Dagdagallsit, who 

 was fishing in the river. When she reached him she became pregnant. 

 Not long after she went home. When she arrived in her house the 

 space between the little finger and the next itched. "Bolinayen, you 

 stick the needle in my finger where it itches. I do not know what 

 makes it itch so," she said. As soon as Bolinayen stuck the needle 

 the little baby popped out. 1 "What shall we name the baby?" "Dag- 

 olayan will be his name." The baby shook his head, so they gave 

 him the name Kanag. 



Awig went to wash his hair in the spring. When he finished washing 

 his hair he went home. When he reached his house he made Ayo louse 

 him. While Ayo was lousing him the milk from her breasts dropped on 

 Awig's legs. "Why, Ayo, does the milk from your breasts drop on my 

 legs?" he asked. He sat up and asked them many times until they 

 brought the baby. When they brought the baby, "We are going home 

 to Natpangan now, because it does not do me any good to try and hide 

 you." He took them home and soon he made a bamboo bench by the 

 gate of the town where the people passed when they went to the well, 

 and he placed the baby on it. Then they built balaua, for he wanted to 

 see the father of the baby. Not long after he commanded some one to go 

 and get betel-nuts and he oiled them. He sent them to go and invite all 

 the people in the world. When they arrived none of them wanted the 

 baby to recognize them. When the baby did not go to any of them, he 

 sent someone to get a betel-nut to send to Dagdagallsit whom they had 

 not invited. As soon as the betel-nut arrived at the place where Dag- 

 dagallsit lived "Dagdagallsit came to Natpangan for Awig makes 

 balaua," it said. " I cannot go, for I am ashamed, because I have no good 

 clothes," he said, for his clout was the dried bark of a banana tree. " If 

 you do not come I will grow on your big pig," it said, and the betel-nut 

 jumped on the back of the big pig, and it began to squeal. When his big 

 pig began squealing loudly, because the tree grew on his back, Dagdaga- 

 llsit said, " I come now." Not long after he went. When he came walk- 

 ing up the trail from the spring the baby saw him, and went to him, 

 and Awig saw him carrying the baby. "I did not think it would happen 

 this way to Aponlbolinayen," he said. Then he sent Aponlbolinayen 

 away, and he made her carry the poor house box that they used to put 

 the fish in which Dagdagallsit caught in the river. "You carry the fe- 

 male pig so that you have something to eat by the river," said Awig to 



1 See p. 18. 



