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hought she was a _bananayo_ [229]. 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 [230] and he put her in the high house [231] 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 Sudipan, 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-ngaeyan 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.) 14 "Ala, Aponibolinayen prepare our things, for we are going to plant sugar cane," said Aponitolau. Not long after they went to see the cuttings and they were big. They took them and planted them when they arrived at the place where they wished to plant them. Aponitolau planted them and Aponibolinayen watered them. Not long after Aponibolinayen used magic and she said, "I use my power so that all the cuttings will be planted." Soon they truly were all planted, so they went back home. After seven days Aponitolau went to look at them and their leaves were long and pointed so he used magic and said, "I used my power so that after five days all the sugar cane which we planted will be ready to chew." Then he went back home. In five days he went again to see them and as soon as he arrived at the planting he saw they were all tall and about ready to chew. Not long after Gaygayoma looked down on the sugar cane and she was anxious to chew it. "Ala, my father Bagbagak, [232] send the stars to go and get some of the sugar cane which I saw, for I am anxious to chew it," she said, for she was pregnant and desired to chew the sugar
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