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Updated: June 15, 2025
Ceremonies made for him are without avail. Aponitolau finds himself up in the air country. He meets maiden who is real cause of his plight. They live together and have a child which grows every time it is bathed. Aponitolau takes boy down to earth to visit his half brother. While there the tears of the mother above fall on her son and hurt him. They celebrate Sayang and the sky mother attends.
Aponitolau commanded his headaxe and spear to go to Giambólan's side as soon as he threw them; so Giambólan laid down and the headaxe went and cut off Giambólan's ten heads. As soon as Aponitolau had killed Giambólan he again commanded his spear and headaxe to cut off the heads of all the people in the houses and the headaxe and spear went and Aponitolau sat by the town waiting for them.
They named him Takyayen, and he grew very fast and was strong. All this time Aponitolau had never forgotten Aponibolinayen who, he knew, was searching for him on the earth, but he had been afraid to mention her to the stars. When the boy was three months old, however, he ventured to tell Gaygayoma of his wish to return to the earth.
As soon as he dressed he took his spear and headaxe and he told Aponibolinayen that if the lawed leaves wilted he was dead. So he went. As soon as he arrived at the well of Gimbangonan all the betel-nut trees bowed, and Gimbangonan shouted and all the world trembled. "How strange that all the world trembles when that lady shouts." So Aponitolau took a walk.
He went and sat down on her skirt and the pretty girl told him not to cut her in many places so she would not need to doctor the wounds. "If I were an old enemy I would have killed you at the first. It is bad for us to talk when we do not know each other's names. Let us chew betel-nut," said Aponitolau. "No, for it is not my custom," said the girl.
"Ala! now that we have finished chewing, I will give the payment for Aponibolinayen, and now that you have found out that I am your son father and mother let us give the payment," said Ini-init. His father and mother said, "If that is what you say, my child, we will give," and they gave him the name of Aponitolau. And Aponitolau said, "Ala! you play the gansa so that we can dance."
But after some time while he and Kanag were playing out in the yard, big drops of water began to fall on them. Kanag ran to his mother and cried: "Oh, Mother, it is raining, and the sun is shining brightly!" But Aponitolau, looking out, said, "No, they are the tears of Gaygayoma, for she sees her son down below, and she weeps for him."
When the people reached the river near the town, Dumalawi sent alligators to take them across, but when Aponitolau got on the alligator's back it dived, and he was thrown back upon the bank of the river. All the others were carried safely over, and Aponitolau, who was left on the bank alone, shouted as if crazy until Dumalawi sent another alligator to carry him across.
As soon as they arrived there he began to play with Kanag and they were the same size and looked alike, because they were half brothers. While they were playing, during the Sayang, Kanag said, "Mother, it is showering," and Aponitolau heard what the boy said to Aponibolinayen. He said, "It is the tears of Tabyayen's mother, for I think she is thinking of him.
Not long after they went back home to Natpangan. "Sinogyaman, come and oil my hair so that I can go to war," said Aponitolau. "And you, Sinagayan, put some rice in the pot and cook it, and also some fish for us to eat." Not long after she cooked, and Sinogyaman oiled his hair. When Sinagayan finished cooking they ate and started to go to Gegenawan where Asibowan lived.
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