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Updated: May 20, 2025
We are thrice told that the corpse was placed on a little raft called tabalang and set adrift on the river; and in one case the afterbirth was treated in the same manner. Nothing of the sort is done to-day, nor does it seem at all likely that such has been the case in recent generations.
Her body is placed in a tabalang on which a rooster sits, and is set afloat on the river. Crowing of the cock causes old woman Alokotan to rescue the corpse. She places it in her magic well and the girl is again alive and beautiful. She returns to her husband as a bird; is caught by him and then resumes own form. Baby of four months hears his father tell of his youthful exploits.
While they were walking they arrived in Nagbotobotán and Dumanau saw the tabalang in the yard by the house of Alokotán and they exchanged greetings. "Good afternoon," they said, and Alokotán took them upstairs; so they went up.
There is the tabalang they put you in and I was surprised, for it was made of gold and has a golden rooster on top of it. They used it to send you down the river." Not long after the old woman Alokotán hid her, and Dumanau, who was always wandering about with his children, approached the place where the women were dipping water from the spring.
Her body is placed in a tabalang on which a rooster sits, and is set afloat on the river. Crowing of the cock causes old woman Alokotán to rescue the corpse. She places it in her magic well and the girl is again alive and beautiful. She returns to her husband as a bird; is caught by him and then resumes own form. Baby of four months hears his father tell of his youthful exploits.
Not long after they sent the tabalang along the stream and the rooster on top of it crowed, and the old woman Alokotán went to see it. She stopped the tabalang and took out the body of the dead person. Not long after she made her alive again. As soon as she made her alive again she put her in a well and she became a beautiful girl.
The rooster said, "Tatalao, I am tabalang of Kadalayapan; on top of me is a golden rooster." He pushed the tabalang into the river and so it floated away. When it passed by the springs in the other towns, the rooster said, "Tatalao, I am tabalang of Kadalayapan, and on top of me is a golden rooster." That is what the rooster always said when they passed the springs in the other towns.
Not long after while they were talking, "This was my tabalang, my grandmother old woman Alokotán; bring out of hiding Wanwanyen-Aponibolinayen, so that I may take her home," said Dumanau, and the old woman Alokotán did not bring her out because she did not believe that he was the husband of Wanwanyen-Aponibolinayen; so she used magic, and when she found that he was the husband of Wanwanyen she said, "She is over there.
We are thrice told that the corpse was placed on a little raft called tabalang and set adrift on the river; and in one case the afterbirth was treated in the same manner. Nothing of the sort is done to-day, nor does it seem at all likely that such has been the case in recent generations.
Three times we are told that the deceased is placed on a tabalang, or raft, on which a live rooster is fastened before it is set adrift on the river. Up to this time in our reconstruction of the life of "the first times" we have mentioned nothing impossible or improbable to the present day Tinguian, although, as we shall see later, there are some striking differences in customs and ideas.
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