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Traditions of the Tinguian

Note 49 — 3

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After three days, Aponītolau said to Aponībolinayen, “Wait for me in the house. Do not be lonesome, for our mother is here. I am going to see my pasture.” “Do not stay long,” said Aponībolinayen. “If anyone comes you hide in the house,” said Aponītolau. Not long after he went and when he arrived in the pasture all the jars went around him and all the jars stuck out their tongues for they were very hungry for they had not been fed for a long time. The jars were somadag, ginlasan, malayo, and tadogan, and other kinds also.49 When Aponītolau thought Page 51that all the jars had arrived where he was he fed them with betel-nut, first covered with lawed50 leaves. As soon as he had fed them he gave them some salt. Not long after he went back home and he rode on a carabao.

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