Ritualistic and Explanatory Myths 183 



54 



In the first time, three Tinguian went to hunt. At night they lay 

 down to sleep and one of them, who had a kambaya, 1 had not gone 

 to sleep when two spirits came near and saw him under the blanket. 

 One turned to the other and said, "Here we have something to eat, for 

 here is a little pig. Then that man took the blanket from the other man 

 and put his blanket in its place, and the spirits came and ate that man. 

 So we know it is bad to use that kind of blanket when you go where 

 the spirits can get. 



55 



A man and woman had a beautiful daughter whom they always 

 kept in the house. 2 One day while they were away in the fields, the girl 

 went outside to pound rice. While she pounded, the spirit Bayon who 

 lives in the sky came to see her. He was like a fresh breeze. Then 

 the girl was like a person asleep, for she could not see nor hear. When 

 she awoke in the sky, she dropped her rice pounder so that it fell near 

 her home and then the people knew she was above. Bayon changed 

 her two breasts into one large one, which he placed in the middle of her 

 chest. When her parents made Sayang, the mediums called Bayon 

 and his wife to come. They still come when some one calls them in the 

 Sayang. The woman's name is Lokadya. 



56 



In the first times men went to the mountains to hunt deer and hogs. 

 One man kept his dog in the open land outside of the forest, to wait for 

 the game. While he waited there with his dog, the big bird Banog came 

 to take him away; and it flew with him over the mountains near to 

 Licuan. 3 The bird took him to her nest in the tree. There were two 

 young birds in the nest. When the bird laid him in the nest he was on 

 a branch of the tree. Three young pigs were in the nest. The bird 

 went away to get animals. After it went away, the man cut the meat in 

 small pieces for the young birds, and the man ate also because the tree 

 was big and he could not go away. The bird brought deer and pigs 

 all the time, and the man always cut the meat in small pieces. After 

 a while the two young birds could fly near to the nest. When they were 

 standing outside of the nest he held on to their wings and the birds flew 



1 A blanket with red or yellow stripes which resemble the markings on a young 

 wild pig. 



2 See p. 54, note 2. 



3 A mountain town in eastern Abra. 



