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Traditions of the Tinguian

Note 102 — 8

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Not long after the people who went to attend the Sayang went home, and Aponībolinayen and Kanag and Alama-an arrived in a level plain. They went to the shade of an alosīp102 tree and they sat there many days, for they were very tired. “I am anxious to drink water,” said Aponībolinayen, and not long after they heard a rooster crowing. “I think we are near a town, for I hear a rooster crowing.” So they went where they had heard the rooster. “We go and drink,” said Aponībolinayen. Not long after they reached the place where Silīt (one kind of lightning) and the dog Kīmat103 guarded. Silīt and the dog were sleeping and did not see them go inside of the town. Soon they arrived in the yard of the golden house of Balbalaōga of Dona and they were ashamed to ask for water to drink, for they were naked. So they went to the balaua and slept, for they were tired.

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