TALES OF THE MYTHICAL PERIOD 



"We go to take greens, sister-in-law Dinay, perhaps the siksiklat 1 

 will taste good. I have heard that the stksiklat is good," said Aponibo- 

 linayen. They went to get her stksiklat. When they arrived at the place 

 of small trees, which they thought was the place of the siksiklat, they 

 looked. Aponibolinayen was the first who looked. As soon as she began 

 to break off the siksiklat which she saw she did not break any more, but 

 the siksiklat encircled and carried her up. When they reached the sky 

 (literally "the up "), the siksiklat placed her below the alosip 2 tree. She 

 sat for a long time. Soon she heard the crowing of the rooster. She 

 stood up and went to see the rooster which crowed. She saw a spring. 

 She saw it was pretty because its sands were oday s and its gravel pagat- 

 pat * and the top of the betel-nut tree was gold, and the place where the 

 people step was a large Chinese plate which was gold. She was surprised, 

 for she saw that the house was small. She was afraid and soon began to 

 climb the betel-nut tree, and she hid herself. 



The man who owned the house, which she saw near the well, 6 was 

 Ini-init — the sun. But he was not in the place of his house, because 

 he went out and went above to make the sun, because that was his work 

 in the daytime. And the next day Aponibolinayen saw him, who went 

 out of his house, because he went again to make the sun. And Aponibo- 

 linayen went after him to his house, because she saw the man, who owned 

 the house, who left. When she arrived in the house, she quickly cooked, 

 because she was very hungry. 



When she finished cooking, she took the stick used in roasting fish 

 and cooked it, and the fish-stick which she cooked became cut-up fish, 

 because she used her magic power. 8 When she finished to cook the fish, 

 she took out rice from the pot, and when she had finished to take out the 

 rice from the pot, she took off the meat from the fish. When she finished 

 taking the fish from the pot, she ate. When she finished eating, she 

 washed. When she finished washing, she kept those things which she 

 used to eat, the coconut shell cup and plate, and she laid down to sleep. 



1 A vine the new leaves of which are used for greens. 

 1 Antidesma ghesaembilla Gaertn. 



* Rare beads. 



4 Larger beads than oday. 



5 Shallow wells are dug in the sands, near to the river. 



• See p. 17, note 3. 



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