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Updated: June 28, 2025
Tries to persuade sister to return with him. She promises to go when their father celebrates balaua. The ceremony is held and girl attends. Is so beautiful all young men try to obtain her. They are so persistent that brother returns her to sky where she still lives and aids women who make dawak. Aponitolau and his wife plant sugar cane, and by use of magic cause it to grow rapidly.
You will pass seven evenings, then you will build balaua. When you finish the time you will know how to make dawak and to call all the spirits, and you will teach the people how to do dawak." When she finished the dawak, the spirit sent her to wash in the river as a sign that she had finished Sayang. He told her to get a dog and a cock.
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 make dawak with her.
Not long after Kaboniyan, above, was looking down on those who make dawak. Kaboniyan went down to them, he went to tell those preparing the pig, because they did not prepare it correctly those two who make dawak. After that they prepared the pig correctly and the sick person got well of the sickness.
If the surmise is correct that the performer of this song is the same as the one who made the record of the Dawak, and if the two songs were made at distinct times with a considerable period elapsing in which other records were made, it would indicate, as is frequently the case among primitive singers, that this performer almost invariably sings at the same pitch.
As soon as the betel-nut went up into the air it arrived where Agten-ngaeyan 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."
Ginalingan said, "We cannot do anything. I told Indiápan that Kabkabaga-an loves Aponitolau and even if I make dawak we can do nothing, for Kabkabaga-an is one of the greatest spirits." Not long after Aponitolau had become a very little man and Ginalingan stopped making dawak, and she went home to Pindayan. Aponitolau became like a hair. Not long after he disappeared.
The name Dawak is applied to that part of important ceremonies in which the spirits enter the bodies of the mediums. It is also given as a separate ceremony, usually to cure sickness, but in some settlements it follows a birth.
The writer tried on two occasions to get this diam, but it was given so low and indistinctly that its full content was not secured, neither was it possible to get the medium to repeat it after the ceremony. From what was heard it seems probable it is the dawak diam, a guess made more probable by the killing of the dog and the bathing which follows.
Every tale emphasizes the importance of the Sayang ceremony and the spirit structure known as balaua. The ceremony is nowhere described in full, but the many details which are supplied show that it was almost identical with that of to-day. The same is true of the Dawak, which we find mentioned on three different occasions, and of the ceremony made to aid in locating lost or stolen articles.
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