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Not long after this Ligi invited all his relatives from the different towns to help him make the ceremony for the spirits. As soon as the people arrived, the tikgi came also; and they flew over the people's heads and made them drink basi until they were drunk. Then they said to Ligi: "We are going home now; it is not good for us to stay here, for we cannot sit among the people."
No sooner had the birds gone than Ligi was filled with a great desire to see them again. As he went home he wished over and over that his rice were ready to cut. As soon as Ligi left the field the tikgi birds began using magic so that the rice grew rapidly, and five days later when he returned he found the birds there ready to cut the ripened grain.
After the tikgi left Ligi had the headache again, so he did not put the rice in the carabao sled, but went home in a hurry. As soon as he arrived in his house Ligi used his power so that it again became morning. As soon as it became day the tikgi went and Ligi went also and they arrived at the same time.
When Ligi went again to the field in the afternoon, the tikgi said: "Come, Ligi, and see what we have done, for we want to go home now." Ligi was amazed, for he saw five hundred bundles of rice cut. And he said: "Oh, Tikgi, take all the rice you wish in payment, for I am very grateful to you." Then the tikgi each took one head of rice, saying it was all they could carry, and they flew away.
"Yes," she replied; "I became tikgi and cut rice for you, for otherwise you would not have found me." Ligi took her back to his house where the people were making the ceremony, and as soon as they saw her they began chewing the magic betel-nuts to find who she might be.
When they started home Ligi followed them until they came to the bana-asi tree, and here he saw them take off their feathers and put them in the rice granary. Then suddenly they became one beautiful maiden. "Are you not the tikgi who came to cut my rice?" asked Ligi. "You look to me like a beautiful maiden."
I do not know why you divorced me," she said. "Tikgi, tikgi, Ligi, if you want us to cut rice for you, we will come to work with you," said the tikgi birds, "Because we like to cut your rice amasi, which is mixed with alomáski in the place of Domayási." Ligi said to them, "What are you going to do? I do not think you can cut rice, for you are birds and only know how to fly, you tikgi."
As soon as the tikgi sent all the rice to the town they went home, and Ligi went to his house. Not long after he built balaua and made Sayang, and he invited all the tikgi. As soon as the people whom Ligi invited arrived the tikgi came also and they flew over the people and they made them drink basi. Not long after they became drunk.
"Now, Ligi, come and see the rice which we have cut, for we want to go back home," said the tikgi. Ligi was surprised. "What did you do, you tikgi? You have nearly finished cutting my rice alomáski in the place of Domayási," he said. "'What did you do', you say, and we cut it with our rice cutters." "Now you tikgi, I am ashamed to separate the payment for each of you.
You take all you want," said Ligi, so the tikgi took truly one head of rice for each one. "Now, Ligi, we have taken all we can carry," said the tikgi. "All right if that is all you want, help yourself," said Ligi, "and you come again." After that the tikgi flew and took with them one head of rice each.
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