Note 145 — 13

When they arrived in Kadalayapan the people from the other towns were dancing and she went below the talagan,145 and Kanag went to see what it was that looked like a flame beneath the talagan. When he reached her he saw it was his sister and he tried to take her away from the talagan, and she said to him, “I cannot get off from here, for the anitos who care for me told me to stay here until someone comes to make dawak with me.” So they sent the old woman Alokotán to Page 107make dawak with her. All the people were surprised, for she made a pleasanter sound when she rang and they thought she was a bananáyo146. The young men who went to attend the balaua loved her, for she was pretty and knew very well how to sing the dawak. As soon as they finished the dawak she was free to leave the talagan, so her brother Kanag took her and put her in his belt147 and he put her in the high house148 so the young men could not reach her.