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Updated: June 18, 2025
But when Aponibolinayen, the bride of Gawigawen, came down out of the house to dance, the sunshine vanished, so beautiful was she; and as she moved about, the river came up into the town, and striped fish bit at her heels. For three months the people remained here feasting and dancing, and then early one morning they took Aponibolinayen to her new home in Adasen.
"I merely dropped one," she replied, and returned to her mat. After a while Aponibolinayen again said: "Oh, I wish I had some of the oranges of Gawigawen of Adasen," and Aponitolau, who heard her from the spirit house, inquired: "What is that you say?" "I wish I had some fish eggs," answered his wife; for she did not want him to know the truth.
Aponibolinayen was sick with a headache, and she lay on a mat alone in her house. Suddenly she remembered some fruit that she had heard of but had never seen, and she said to herself, "Oh, I wish I had some of the oranges of Gawigawen of Adasen."
"Do not go," said the lightning, "for you have a bad sign, and you will never come back." Still Aponitolau did not heed. "I am going to get oranges of Gawigawen of Adasen," he replied. Then the thunder commanded: "Stand on that high stone so that I can see if you have a good sign." He stood on the high stone, and when the thunder made a loud noise he jumped.
Many young men had come to her brother, Aponibalagen, to ask for her hand in marriage, but he had refused them all, for he awaited one who possessed great power. Then it happened that the fame of her beauty spread over all the world till it reached even to Adasen; and in that place there lived a man of great power named Gawigawen.
"I am going to get the oranges from Gawigawen of Adasen. Go and stand on the high stone and I will see what your sign is." So he went and stood on the high stone and the lightning made a light and Aponitolau dodged. "Do not go, for you have a bad sign, and Gawigawen will secure you." "No, I am going." So he went.
Not long after the fruit dropped on the floor in the kitchen and Aponibolinayen heard it, and she went into the kitchen. As soon as she got there she saw the fruit and she ate it at once, and the spear said to her, "Aponitolau is in Adasen. He sent me first to bring you the oranges which you wished."
Aponitolau laid down in their balaua and Aponibolinayen was in the house and she had a headache. "I am anxious to eat the fruit of the orange tree which belongs to Gawigawen of Adasen," said Aponibolinayen. Aponitolau heard her. "What is that?" he said to her. "I am anxious to eat the biw of Matawitáwen." "Give me a sack and I will go to get it," said Aponitolau, and he went.
"I dropped some of the eggs," replied his wife, and she went back to her mat. By and by she again said: "I wish I had some of the oranges of Gawigawen of Adasen." But when her husband asked what she wished, she replied: "I want a deer's liver to eat"
Then all the people discussed what should be done to bring peace between the two men, and it was finally decided that Kadayadawan must pay both Aponibalagen and Gawigawen the price that was first demanded for the beautiful girl. After this was done all were happy; and the guardian spirit of Kadayadawan gave them a golden house in which to live. Gawigawen of Adasen Tinguian
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