As soon as the people returned to their towns, when the party was over, Aponītolau went to take a walk. When he reached the brook he sat down on a stone and the big frog went to lap up his spittle. Not long after the big frog had a little baby.[140] Not long after she gave birth, and the anitos[141] went to get the little baby and flew away with it. They used their power so that the baby grew fast and it was a girl, and they taught her how to make dawak.[142] Not long after the girl knew how to make dawak, and every time she rang the dish to summon the spirits.
Kanag went to follow his father, but he did not find him where he had been sitting by the brook, and Kanag heard the sound of the ringing which sounded like the bananâyo.[143] As soon as he heard it he stood still and listened. Not long after he used his power so that he became a bird and he flew. As soon as he arrived at the place where the girl was making dawak she said to him, “You are the only person who has come here. If you are an enemy cut me in only one place so I will not have so much to heal.” “I am not an enemy; I came here for I heard what you were doing; so I became a bird and flew.” Kanag gave betel-nut to her and they chewed. Their quids looked like the beads pinogalan, so they knew that they were brother and sister. The girl said to him, “Go inside of the big iron caldron so that the anitos who care for me will not eat you.” So Kanag went inside of the big iron caldron. When the anitos did not arrive at the accustomed time Kanag went out of the caldron and said to his sister, “Now, my sister, I will take you to Kadalayapan. Our father and mother do not know that I have a sister. Do not stay always with the anitos” His sister replied, “I Page 106cannot go to Sudīpan[144] when no one is making balaua, for I always make dawak as the anitos taught me. If I come in Sudīpan when no one is making balaua it would make all of the people very ill.” So Kanag went home.
As soon as he arrived he told his father and mother to make balaua for he wanted his sister to see them. “We just made balaua. How can we make balaua again?” said his father and mother. “I want you to see my sister whom I found up in the air, where the anitos took her.” “You are crazy, Kanag; you have no sisters or brothers; you are the only child we have.” Kanag said to them, “It is sure that I have a sister. I don't know why you did not know about her. The anitos took her when she was a little baby and they taught her how to make dawak, and she always makes dawak. I wanted to bring her when I came back, but she said she could not come to Sudīpan when no one makes balaua, for she is always making dawak. She said if she came to Sudīpan and did not make dawak everyone would be ill, so I did not bring her. If you wish to see your daughter, father, make balaua at once.” So they made balaua, for they wished to see their daughter.
They sent messengers to go and get betel-nuts which were covered with gold, and when they had secured the betel-nuts they oiled them and sent them to the different towns where their relatives lived, and they sent one into the air to go and get their daughter Agten-ngaᴇyan. So all the betel-nuts went and invited the people to the balaua. As soon as the betel-nut went up into the air it arrived where Agten-ngaᴇyan was making dawak. When she saw the betel-nut beside her she was startled, for it was covered with gold. She tried to cut it up, for she wished to chew it, and the betel-nut said, “Do not cut me, for your brother and father in Kadalayapan sent me to summon you to their balaua, for they are anxious to see you.” So Agten-ngaᴇyan told the anitos that a betel-nut which was covered with gold had come to take her to Aponītolau who was making Sayang, and they wished to see her. The anitos let her go, but they advised her to return. So she went.
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 bananáyo[146]. 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 belt[147] and he put her in the high house[148] so the young men could not reach her.
As soon as the balaua was over the people went home, but the young men still remained below the house watching her, and the ground below became muddy, for they always remained there.
When Kanag saw the young men below the house fighting about her, he took her again into the air so that the young men could not see her. As soon as they arrived in the air they met the anitos, and Kanag said to them, “I intended to keep my sister in Sudīpan, for I had made a little golden house for her to live in, but I have brought her back, for all the young men are fighting about her.” The anitos were glad that she was back with them and they gave Kanag more power, so that when he should go to war he would always destroy his opponents. Agten-ngaᴇyan used to go and teach the women how to make dawak when anyone made balaua, so that she taught them very well how to make dawak. This is all.
(Told by a medium named Magwati of Lagangilang.)