Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

After the tikgi left Ligi had the headache again, so he did not put the rice in the carabao sled, but went home in a hurry.  As soon as he arrived in his house Ligi used his power so that it again became morning.  As soon as it became day the tikgi went and Ligi went also and they arrived at the same time.  “Tikgi, tikgi, Ligi, can we cut your rice which is amasi mixed with alomaski in the place of Domayasi?” “Are you here now, tikgi?” said Ligi.  “Go and cut the rice and see if you can cut it very soon, and after that I will make Sayang, and you must come tikgi,” said Ligi.  “Yes, we are going to cut and you do not need to stay here.  You can go home if you wish,” said the tikgi.  So Ligi went home.

As soon as he arrived in his house he went to make a rice granary.  When it became afternoon they had finished cutting the rice and Ligi went to the fields to see them.  As soon as he arrived there, “We have finished all the rice, Ligi,” they said.  “Come and give us the payment and then you can go home and see the rice granary where you put the rice, and all the rice bundles will arrive there directly, for you cannot carry them home.”  “I cannot take them home, for I always have a headache when you go.  Since you came I began to have headaches,” said Ligi.  “Why do you blame us, Ligi?” “Because since you came I have had headaches.”  After that Ligi went home to see the rice granary.

As soon as Ligi left them they used magic so that all the rice went to the granary of Ligi in his town.  As soon as Ligi arrived at the drying enclosure he saw the rice which the tikgi had sent and he was surprised.  “I wonder how those tikgi sent all the rice?  I think they are not real tikgi” said Ligi.  As soon as the tikgi sent all the rice to the town they went home, and Ligi went to his house.

Not long after he built balaua and made Sayang, and he invited all the tikgi.  As soon as the people whom Ligi invited arrived the tikgi came also and they flew over the people and they made them drink basi.  Not long after they became drunk.  “Now Ligi we must go home, because it is not good for us to stay for we cannot sit among the people whom you have invited, for we are tikgi and always fly.”  Not long after they went home and Ligi followed them.  He left the people in the party and he watched where they went, and they went to the bana-asi tree and Ligi went to them and he saw them take off their feathers and put them in the rice granary and Ligi said to them, “Is that what you become, a girl; sometimes you are tikgi who come to cut rice for me.  Now that you are not tikgi I would like to marry you.”  “It is true that I am the tikgi who came to cut rice, because you would not have found me if I had not done it.”  He married the woman who had power so that she became several birds, [279] and he took her home.

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