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Updated: May 9, 2025
Tuglay and Mona made all the things in the world; but the god made the woman and the man. Mona was also called Tuglibung. Tuglay and Tuglibung got rich, because they could see the god. But the snake was there too, and he gave the fruit to the man and the woman, saying to them, "If you eat the fruit, it will open your eyes." Then they both ate the fruit. This made the god angry.
Then the girl prepared a betel-nut and offered it to the Tuglay, but he did not like to accept it. But when she had pressed it upon him many times, he took the betel and chewed it. Then the girl said, "Come with my brother and me to my house, for we have no companion." But when the girl saw the Tuglay hesitate, she asked him, "Where were you going when we met you?"
Then the Buso gave Tuglay a basket of bananas, and let him go away. Now, while her husband was away, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. And when the man got home he was pleased, and said, "Oh! that's fine! You got some babies while I was away."
After that, the Tuglay took off his trousers of bark and his jacket of bark, and became a Malaki T'oluk Waig. But the Moglung wondered where the Tuglay had gone, and she cried to her grandmother, "Where is the Tuglay?" But the Malaki stood there, and answered her, "I am the Tuglay." At first the Moglung was grieved, because the Malaki seemed such a grand man, and she wanted Tuglay back.
Tradition says that they were acquainted with only the rudest of Bagobo arts and industries; that they were very poor, and dressed themselves in the soft sheath torn from the cocoanut-trees. Tuglay and Tuglibung are not specific, but general, names for all those old people of the tales. The name "Mona" is ordinarily applied to the old man as well as to the old woman of prehistoric days.
The Datto Buso questioned the man. "First of all, I will ask you where you come from, Tuglay." "I am come from my house in T'oluk Waig," replied the man. And the great Buso shouted, "I will cut off your head with my sharp kris!" "But if I choose, I can kill you with your own sword," boldly answered Tuglay. Then he lay down, and let the Buso try to cut his neck.
The Tuglay rested eight nights in the grandmother's bed. At the end of the eight nights the Moglung said to him, "Please take this betel-nut that I have prepared for you." At first Tuglay did not want to take it; but the next day, when the Moglung again offered the betel, he accepted it from her and began to chew.
The old man was called Tuglay, and the old woman, Tuglibung. The two were married, and lived together. The Tuglay made a great house, and planted seeds of different kinds that Diwata gave him. Diwata made the sun, the moon, the stars, and the rivers. Now, when the great crab bites the great eel, the eel wriggles, and this produces an earthquake.
The Tuglay answered, "I want to go to the town of the Malaki Tuangun, for to my home has come the word that the Malaki is a mighty man, and his sister a great lady." Then the girl looked at the Tuglay, and said, "If you want to make ready to go to the Malaki Tuangun's town, you ought to put on your good trousers and a nice jacket."
The Malaki Lindig Ramut ka Langit and all the other malaki from the surrounding country were there. They called out to him, "Where are you going?" The Tuglay told them that he had got lost, and had been travelling a long distance. As he spoke, he noticed, sitting among a group of young men, the beautiful woman called Moglung. She motioned to him, and said, "Come, sit down beside me."
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