170 Traditions of the Tinguian 



to build balaua. They sent messengers to go and invite people in every 

 town. Not long after the people whom they invited arrived, and they 

 saw that the princes were not there. So they commanded their spirit 

 aids to go to all the world and find those princes. So the spirits became 

 hawks and they flew about the world. As soon as they came near to 

 the palace of the king they alighted on a tree and they watched the 

 princesses in the windows and hawks said, "Tingi." The princesses 

 heard the word ''Tingi," and they were Ganinawan and Asigtanan. 

 They saw the birds from the window, and the hawks flew by them and 

 the princesses stroked their feathers, because they were pretty. 



Soon the hawks seized them in their talons and flew away with them 

 and carried them to Pindayan. Not long after they reached there and 

 Iwaginan and Indayo were very glad, and they made a big party and 

 they invited the king. The king had been searching for them for a long 

 time. Some of the spirit helpers who had gone to the palace said, 

 " Good morning. We came here to invite you, for Iwaginan and Indayo 

 sent us. They are making a big party for those princesses for whom you 

 are searching, for we took them to Pindayan, and Iwaginan and Indayo 

 married them. When the king heard the news he was glad, and he 

 went to the party. Indayo and Iwaginan made him dance when he 

 arrived, and Kanag and Dagolayen went to that party. Not long after 

 they put those girls, whom Iwaginan and Indayo had stolen, in their 

 belts and they did not know what had become of their wives and they 

 were sorry. Kanag and Dagolayen took them home. When they 

 arrived home they told their names and they chewed betel-nut and they 

 found that it was good for them to be married, instead of Iwaginan and 

 Indayo. Kanag married Asigtanan and Dagolayen married Ganina- 

 wan. The mother of Ganinawan was Aponlbolinayen and the mother 

 of Asigtanan was Aponlgawanl. 



As soon as they were married and they had learned who their 

 mothers were they built balaua, and they sent some betel-nuts to invite 

 all of their relatives in other towns. Iwaginan and Indayo went to 

 attend the balaua, and they danced. They saw that those girls were 

 their wives and they tried to take them back home, but Kanag and 

 Dagolayen would not let them. They said it was not good for them 

 to be married even though they wished to be married to them, because 

 the girls would become oil when they went close to them. So Indayo 

 and Iwaginan were very sorry. Ganinawan was the sister of Kanag 

 and Asigtanan was the sister of Dagolayen. They did not find out that 

 they were related until Indayo and Iwaginan took them, for their 

 mothers had lost them in miscarriages, and the girls became women by 

 themselves, and the king found them. 



(Told by Talanak of Manabo.) 



