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She went to the river and she tied the cock and the dog by the water, and while she was gone, the dog killed the cock. Dayapán wept, but for a long time the spirit did not come. When Kaboniyan came again, he said, "If the dog had not killed the cock, no person would die, but this is a sign and now somebody will die and some will be well."

Then Kadaklan, the Great Spirit who lives in the sky, saw that the people often were hungry and sick, and he sent one of his servants, Kaboniyan, to the earth to teach them many things. And it happened this way: Dayapan, a woman who lived in Caalang, had been sick for seven years.

The spirit held sugar-cane and rice. He said to her, "Take this sugar-cane and rice and plant them in the ground. After you reap the sugar-cane and rice, you will build a bin to hold the rice, and a sugar mill for the cane; after that you will make Sayang and that will make you well." Dayapán took those things and went back home. She planted the sugar-cane and rice.

Dayapan called all the people together, and told them the things that the spirit had taught her; and they could see that she had been made well. After that, when people became ill they called Dayapan to treat them. And it was as the Spirit had said; some died and others were made well. Magsawi Tinguian

Dayapán went home and when she arrived there she began to learn to make dawak, and she called all people to hear her and she told all she had seen and heard. Then the people believed her very much. When somebody was sick, they called Dayapán to see them and to show them how to make them well.

Your food and animals and other things which you need shall be increased." After that he said, "Let all the people in the world know of this so that they will make Ubaya for me, and I will aid them also." Dayapán was a woman who lived in Ka-alang. For seven years she was sick. She went to the spring to bathe and while she was in the water a spirit sent by Kadaklan entered her body.

At last they recognize how necessary each one is for the other and cease their wrangling; then the people who live in the house are again in good health. The great spirit sees the people of Bisau celebrating the Ubaya ceremony, and determines to reward them by increasing their worldly goods. He appears as a man and rewards them. Dayapan, who has been ill for seven years, goes to bathe.

According to tradition, it was taught, together with the Sayang ceremony, by the spirit Kaboniyan to a woman Dayapan; and she, in turn, taught it to others, who were then able to cure sickness. As there was considerable variation in each Dawak witnessed by the writer, the complete ceremony is given for the village of Ba-ak, together with striking variations from other towns.

It is customary to pay laborers in rice; likewise the value of animals, beads, and the like are reckoned and paid in this medium. During the dry season rice is loaned, to be repaid after the harvest with interest of about fifty per cent. According to tradition, the Tinguian were taught to plant and reap by a girl named Dayapán.

Since then the Tinguian have planted crops every year, and because they do as Kaboniyan taught the woman they have plenty to eat. When Dayapan had reaped the first rice and cane, she began to make the ceremony Sayung, and the Spirit came again and directed her.