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When the Komow comes to ask how many deer you have, he will smell me, but you must say that you do not know where I am," So the people went to hunt, and when they had killed two deer, they singed them over a fire and began to divide them. Just then the Komow arrived and said: "How many have you?" "We have two," replied the people. "I have two also," said the Komow, "but I smell Sayen."
Sayen came in the town again to fight. After fighting he went under the house and he went into the trap, and the people caught and killed him. This all happened not very long ago. In the old times Malilipeng was walking along the trail in the woods when he heard the alan in the trees. He laid down on his face as if dead and the alan who saw him began to wail, for they thought he was dead.
He hides and captures her. They go together to the spirit town, in the ground, and secure her spirit which is kept in a green bamboo cup. As they are returning to the ground they are pursued, but Baluga cuts the vine on which their pursuers are climbing. When they reach home, they hold a great celebration. An alan takes the afterbirth and causes it to become a real child named Sayen.
"Are you brave, Sayen?" called he in a voice like thunder as he threw the weapon. "Yes," answered Sayen, and he caught the spear. This surprised Kaboniyan, and he threw his head-ax which was as large as the roof of a house, and Sayen caught that also.
Kaboniyan said, "Here is again," and threw his shield. Sayen caught it again. "Did you catch it, Sayen?" Sayen said, "Yes." Kaboniyan said, "Here is again," and threw a very big stone. Sayen caught it. "Did you catch it, Sayen?" said Kaboniyan. Sayen said, "Yes," and Kaboniyan said to him, "Wait for me, I come down to you."
Sayen spat on some of the dead people and made them alive again and he married Danipán and took her to Benben. When the people in Magisang went to hunt deer and when they went to divide it, the komau, a big spirit who looks like a man, and who kills people, went to them to ask them, "How many did you catch?" If they had caught two they told him "Two," and the komau said, "I caught two also."
The afterbirth child, Sayen, is believed to have lived "not very long ago;" yet we find his life and actions quite similar to those of the heroes in "the first times," while his foster mother the alan takes the same part as did the alan of old.
The next day they placed a fish trap under the house near the chicken-coop, and that night when Sayen went under the house he was caught in the trap and killed. The Sun and the Moon Tinguian Once the Sun and the Moon quarreled with each other, and the Sun said: "You are only the Moon and are not much good. If I did not give you light, you would be no good at all."
The name of the servant was Laey. Sayen took her home. They had one baby. One day Sayen was making a plow under the house. Laey was in the house with her baby. She was singing in the house to her baby. "Sayen thinks I am Danipán, but I am Laey, Laey no aglage-le-gey-ley." Sayen heard the song and said to himself that his wife was not Danipán.
These beings are usually invisible, but at times of ceremonies they enter the bodies of the mediums, possess them, and thus communicate with the people. On rare occasions they are visible in their own forms, as when Kaboniyan appeared as the antagonist and later as the friend of Sayen. These beings are addressed, first through certain semi-magical formulas, know as diams.
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