130 . Traditions of the Tinguian 



where we are now; where are we?" she said. "It is the town of Kada- 

 layapan." 



Not long after their three children went to look out of the window 

 and they saw the sugar cane, and they were anxious to chew it. " Father, 

 go and get the sugar cane for us to chew," they said. Dumanau went, 

 and he advised Wanwanyen-Aponibolinayen to fasten the door while 

 he was gone. "If anyone comes do not open the door." He went, 

 and Dumanau's father and mother were frightened, because the little 

 house was by their dwelling, for there was no little house there before. 

 As soon as Dumanau arrived in the house of his father and mother they 

 were surprised, for they had searched for him three years. They asked 

 where he had been, and he said he had found a wife in the wood when 

 he had staid for three years. He told his mother that she must not go 

 to his house and say bad words to his wife. So Dumanau went to the 

 place of the sugar cane, and his mother went to the house and said bad 

 words to his wife. " Open the door, you bad woman, who has no shame. 

 You are the cause of my son being lost, and we spent much time to 

 find him. What did you come here for, worthless woman?" said Aponl- 

 bolinayen. Wanwanyen-Aponibolinayen did not answer her. Not 

 long after Dumanau arrived at their house and Wanwanyen said to him, 

 " It is true what I told you. I told you not to go and you did truly, and 

 your mother came and said many bad words. I said it was best for us 

 to stay always in Matawatawen, but you paid no heed. Now my stom- 

 ach is sick, for your mother came here to say many bad things to us." 

 Not long after she died. Dumanau sharpened his headaxe and spear, 

 for he wanted to kill his mother, because she said bad things to his wife 

 Wanwanyen, but he did not kill her, because she fastened the door. 



As soon as Dumanau arrived in their house he made a tabalang 1 

 of gold, and put the body of Wanwanyen inside of it, and he put a golden 

 rooster on top of it. As soon as he finished he put the body of Wan- 

 wanyen inside of it. As soon as he had done this he said, "If you pass 

 many different towns where the people get water, you rooster crow." 

 The rooster said, "Tatalao, I am tabalang of Kadalayapan; on top of 

 me is a golden rooster." He pushed the tabalang into the river and so it 

 floated away. When it passed by the springs in the other towns, the 

 rooster said, "Tatalao, I am tabalang of Kadalayapan, and on top of me 

 is a golden rooster." That is what the rooster always said when they 

 passed the springs in the other towns. 



Dumanau wandered about as if crazy, and his oldest son walked in 

 front of him. He carried the next child on his back and carried the third 



1 A raft. See p. 24, note 1. 



