Note 196 — 23

Not long after he built balaua and made Sayang, and he invited all the tikgī. As soon as the people whom Līgī invited arrived the tikgī came also and they flew over the people and they made them drink basi. Not long after they became drunk. “Now Līgī we must go home, because it is not good for us to stay for we cannot sit among the people whom you have invited, for we are tikgī and always fly.” Not long after they went home and Līgī followed them. He left the people in the party and he watched where they went, and they went to the bana-ásī tree and Līgī went to them and he saw them take off their feathers and put them in the rice granary and Līgī said to them, “Is that what you become, a girl; sometimes you are tikgī who come to cut Page 151rice for me. Now that you are not tikgī I would like to marry you.” “It is true that I am the tikgī who came to cut rice, because you would not have found me if I had not done it.” He married the woman who had power so that she became several birds,196 and he took her home.