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malaki could slay buso in countless oumbers, simply by holding 

 the sword first in his right hand, then in his left; U1 he was 

 invulnerable to arrack, since all the weapons of his toes dissolved 

 at the tirsr rhrusr : l4 - he held up his spear and caused daylight 

 n> turn to darkness. ,4;! lie Hew through the air. riding on his 

 shield or on the swift wind. lU Then' were malaki and there were 

 bia from whose bodies beamed rays of light so brilliant that the 

 houses which they entered needed no torch on the dark nights. 1 * 3 



In song and in romantic rale, even in the current talk o\' to-day, 

 there is assumed ro be a viral relation between beauty in personal 

 adornment and a virtuous character. There is an ideal Bagobo, a 

 true malaki. who is young and perfectly chaste, and who is clad 

 in the finest of garments. In one literary passage, the high vir- 

 tues of a malaki are stressed; in another, his lustrous clothing, 

 but, throughout, there is ever a return ro the one idea: that the 

 typical malaki is pure of heart and brave of spirit, and that he is 

 radiantly beautiful ro look upon. One young Bagobo girl defined 

 a malaki rhu>: "Very good man who wears very good clothes, 

 kerchief, jacket, trousers, all very good, young man who has 



no wife."' There is a word, /.■iif</hi<ni. which is explained as mean- 

 ing, "r«> do something had and ro cease to he malaki." While 

 the characters in romantic rales (ulit) do not always live up ro 

 the ideal meaning of their name, malaki. yet the primary content 

 of the word is evervwhere recognized. 



Corresponding ro the malaki. there is an ideal woman, some- 

 times called bia, and sometimes daraga^ u " rhe latter word being 



'•' Cf. ibid., p. 88 



"•- Cf. ibid., p. 34. 

 , p. 86. 

 l *» ( . pp. 89, 38, 38. 



■ Phi • "ii of radiant light with the bodies of distinguished individuals is verj 



common in ancient Indian tales. Cf. the following passages, from Katha Sarit S&gara 

 ret. <• 88 88 "The hermit Narada is said to diffuse a halo with the radiance of 

 his body." if. fol. 1, p.] - 1 ain, "he illuminates the whole horiion with brightness 

 vol 1. |>. 416. "There appeared a light inseparable from his head.'' Vol. 1. p. 418. 

 'There, on a altar-platform illuminated bj the great hermit Vijitasn ... as by a second 

 tire in human form." Vol. 8, p. 146. 'And he saw that maiden near him, illuminating 

 the wo.nl. though it was night." Vol 2. p. 138. Her beauty illuminated 'he lower 

 world which has not the light of the sun or of the star-." Vol. 8, p. 199. 



'»' ;i Sanscrit word, meaning "a girl." The peninsular Malax for "virgin" 



child -ill." See P. A. SWKTTKNHAM: Vocabulary of the Ku-lish and 



Mala] languages, vol. 8, p. 87. 1896. 

 The Tagal word for girls of marriageabl U ga wrote in 1609, was dmUga, It 



