Note 30 — 4028

Dayapán was a woman who lived in Ka-alang. For seven years she was sick. She went to the spring to bathe and while she was in the water a spirit sent by Kadaklan30 entered her body. The spirit held sugar-cane and rice. He said to her, “Take this sugar-cane and rice and plant them in the ground. After you reap the sugar-cane and rice, you will build a bin to hold the rice, and a sugar mill for the cane; after that you will make Sayang and that will make you well.” Dayapán took those things and went back home. She planted the sugar-cane and rice. When she was planting, the spirit entered her body again and taught her how to plant. When she reaped the sugar-cane and rice, she began to make Sayang. The spirit Kabonīyan went again into her to teach her how to make Sayang. The spirit said, “Send a man to get bolo (bamboo) and weave it into talapitap.31 Take lono and bolo as big as a finger and make dakidak,31 and put a jar with water upstairs in the house. Dance daeng32 for ten nights. You will pass seven evenings, then you will build balaua.33 Send some persons to get wood and bamboo and rattan and cogon, and take ten baskets with cooked rice to follow the number of nights (i.e., on the first night one basket of cooked rice on the talapitap; the second night, two; and so on). When you finish the time you will know how to make dawak32 and to call all the spirits, and you will teach the people how to do dawak.”