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' When she had reached the top of the house she again 

 cried out words to the same effect. Then the whole family 

 came out from the house deeply distressed at seeing her 

 carried away on high, and cried, " Pandagian ! come 

 down again ; here are nine pigs that shall be slaughtered 

 for you." Then she answered, " It is too late, too late, I 

 have no more need of them," and as she said this she rose 

 higher and higher in the air, until at length she disappeared 

 from sight. 



' When she arrived at the heavenly village Kasendukan, 

 her hands and her feet were bound together, and a stick of 

 the Lahendong tree passed through them, and thus she 

 was carried to the river and there washed.^ Then she was 

 killed, roasted, scraped, again washed, cut open and her 

 entrails removed — treated, in fact, just like a slaughtered 

 pig. But all this painful treatment redounded to her honour. 

 For from her forehead and face arose the sun, from the 

 back of her head arose the moon (the spots on the moon 

 are the wounds she had on her head), her right eye became 

 the star of the year, her left eye the star Pamusis, her heart 

 the morning stai', her liver became the three stars, her 

 lungs the seven stars, and her body, which was chopped into 

 fine pieces, became the other stars. The glow-worms received 

 their lights from the scraps that fell from the chopping- 

 block.' 



In many of the legends of the people of Minahassa, we 

 find traces of the infiiuence of the Catholic priests. This 

 influence seems to have caused in many cases both a change 

 in the names of the heroes and a considerable modifica- 

 tion in the character of the legends. 



The following legend is an example of this (22) : ' The 



' This is a method of binding pigs, which was formerly employed in 

 Minahassa. A picture in the narrative of the voyage of the ' Astrolabe ' (78) 

 shows a babirusa pig bound in this way. 



