162 Traditions of the Tinguian 



am going to fight with the tattooed Igorot," said IbagO wa Agimlang to 

 them, and they talked for nine months, in the place where the stone 

 bench was. The alan girls wanted to see him all the time. After that, 

 "You young alan girls, I am going to leave you." "Do not go," said 

 the alan, because you are a little baby, you just came from the place 

 where your mother gave birth to you." "Do not detain me, young 

 girls, for it is bad for me if you detain me, for I will be too heavy for 

 fighting," said IbagO wa Agimlang. "If I return from war, I will invite 

 you to attend my big party," he said to them, and so he went. 



Not long after he arrived at the town where the tattooed Igorot 

 lived, and they were so many they looked like locusts. He used his 

 power, "You, my headaxe and my spear, go and fight with the tattooed 

 Igorot, and kill all of them." As soon as the tattooed Igorot heard 

 what he said, they said, "Why, do you brave baby come to fight with us 

 for, you are very young? Now you cannot return to your town, for we 

 inherit you," said the bravest of the alzados} "If you had said that 

 you intended to kill me I would have killed all of you, even though I am 

 a baby just from my mother's womb," said Agimlang. So the bravest 

 of the alzados told his people that they should prepare to fight with the 

 baby, and they began to throw their spears at him, but they could not 

 hit him. As soon as all the spears and headaxes were gone, the baby 

 fought with them, and his spear and headaxes killed all the people who 

 lived in that town. As soon as he killed all of them he used magic so 

 that the heads of the tattooed alzados went to Pindayan. Not long 

 after truly all the heads went to Pindayan and he followed them. 



When he arrived at the spring of Lisnayan in the town of Ibowan he 

 rested and he sat on the high stone and began to play the bamboo 

 Jew's harp and IgOwan saw him. "Adolan come and see this young 

 fellow and hear him play the Jew's harp." The harp said, " Iwaginan 

 Adolan, Inalangan come and see your brother, if he is your true brother." 

 So Adolan went truly to see him and he found that it was a newborn 

 baby who was just beginning to walk. "Where did you come from 

 little baby?" said Adolan. " 'Where did you come from?' " you say. 

 I come from fighting the tattooed Igorot." "How does it happen that 

 you went to war, for you are only just from your mother's womb?" 

 " 'How does it happen?' you say. I heard my father saying that when 

 he was young he went to all parts of the world in all the towns," said 

 IbagO wa Agimlang to Adolan. 



Not long after he gave him betel-nut and they chewed. As soon 

 as they finished chewing they told their names, and Adolan told his 



1 The Tinginan always refer to the Igorot as alzado. 



