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Updated: June 20, 2025
Dumanau wandered about as if crazy, and his oldest son walked in front of him. He carried the next child on his back and carried the third on his hip. When the tabalang arrived in Nagbotobotán, "Tatalao, I am tabalang of Kadalayapan, and on me is a golden rooster," said the rooster on the tabalang which was made of gold.
The old woman Alokotán was taking a bath by the river and she was in a hurry to put on her skirt and she followed the tabalang. "You tabalang, where did you come from? Are you the tabalang of Kapaolan? If you are not from Kapaolan, are you from Kanyogan?" The tabalang did not stop and it nearly went down into the hole where the stream goes. So Alokotán ran very fast.
As soon as Dumanau arrived in their house he made a tabalang of gold, and put the body of Wanwanyen inside of it, and he put a golden rooster on top of it. As soon as he finished he put the body of Wanwanyen inside of it. As soon as he had done this he said, "If you pass many different towns where the people get water, you rooster crow."
"'Where are you going, you say, women. I am following Wanwanyen-Aponibolinayen whom I put inside the tabalang for she was dead. Did you see the tabalang pass here?" said Dumanau. "It passed by here long ago. Perhaps it is in Nagbotobotán now." "Ala, I leave you now, women, and I go and follow." "Yes," answered the women.
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.
As soon as he married her all his concubines used their magic power so that while he was living with Asigowan she would cut her finger. Not long after she truly cut her finger and died. They put her in the tabalang which had a rooster on top of it. Then all the concubines of Asbinan were glad.
"Are you tabalang from Kaodanan?" The tabalang hesitated a little. "Are you tabalang of Kadalayapan?" "Yes," said the tabalang and stopped; so she went inside of the tabalang and she took the body to her house. She was afraid of the tabalang, because it was made of gold and she was surprised because the woman who was inside was beautiful and there was no one to compare with her.
All the alan were drunk and the mother of Balbalaoga of Dona said to them, "Aponibolinayen, Balbalaoga is your brother, for he was the after-birth of Awig, which they put in the tabalang which they sent down the stream. So I picked him up, for I had no child to inherit all my things."
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