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Updated: May 28, 2025
You shall never go back to your town, but you shall stay here and be like your father." "We shall see," said Kanag. "Bring your arms and let us fight here in the yard." Gawigawen was beside himself with rage at this bold speech, and he brought his spear and his head-ax which was as big as half the sky.
As he was departing through the gate of the town with his spear and head-ax, Kanag struck his shield and it sounded like a thousand warriors. "How brave that boy is!" said the surprised people. "He is braver even than his father." When he reached the spring of the giantess, he again struck his shield and shouted so that the whole world trembled.
Here, too, were the same pill-box hats as those seen at Bontok, some elaborately beaded and costing from one to five carabaos apiece; in one case the lid of a tomato tin had been pressed into service as a hat. But the finest thing of all was the head-ax, a beautiful and cruel-looking weapon, the head having on one side an edge curving back toward the shaft, and on the other a point.
He took his spear and shield and head-ax and started early one morning, but when he reached the gate of the town, Kanag flew over him, giving him a bad sign, so he turned back. The next morning he started again, and this time the little bird gave him a good sign, and knowing that nothing would injure him, he went on.
Aponitolau cut a vine which he planted by the stove, and told his wife that if the leaves wilted she would know that he was dead. Then he took his spear and head-ax and started on the long journey. When Aponitolau arrived at the well of a giantess, all the betel-nut trees bowed. Then the giantess shouted and all the world trembled.
From it he took a two-quart olla containing water, a small wooden bowl of cooked rice, a bottle of native cane sugar, and a head-ax. He next kindled a blaze under the olla in a fireplace of three stones already set up. Then followed the ceremonial killing of the chicken, as described in the Mang'-mang rite of the second day.
Then he sent his head-ax, and it cut off all the heads of the enemy; and he used magical power so that these heads went to his home in Kadalayapan. After that Aponitolau sat down by the gate of the town to rest, and the little bird, flying over his head, called down: "The sign that I gave you was good, Father, and you have killed all your enemies."
He took his spear and his shield and head-ax and went at once to the town of Danepan, and there he began killing the people on all sides. Terror spread through the town. No one could stop his terrible work of destruction until Danepan came down out of her house, and begged him to spare part of the people that she might have some from whom to borrow fire.
"I am your son," said Kanag. "You were not asleep but dead, and here is Gawigawen who kept you. Take my head-ax and cut off his remaining head." So Aponitolau took the head-ax, but when he struck Gawigawen it did not injure him. "What is the matter, Father?" asked Kanag; and taking the weapon he cut off the sixth head of Gawigawen.
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