Not long after Aponitolau went to take Tabyayen from above and Gaygayoma was very glad to see him.  When they were talking he said, “Now I am going to take Tabyayen down, for I want him to attend our Sayang.”  “Yes, you may take him, but you must bring him back when the Sayang is finished.”  So Aponitolau took the boy to attend the balaua in Kadalayapan.  As soon as they arrived there he began to play with Kanag and they were the same size and looked alike, because they were half brothers.  While they were playing, during the Sayang, Kanag said, “Mother, it is showering,” and Aponitolau heard what the boy said to Aponibolinayen.  He said, “It is the tears of Tabyayen’s mother, for I think she is thinking of him.  I told them not to go over there, but they went anyway.  I think Gaygayoma saw them playing and she cried.”  Then Aponibolinayen went to take them away from the yard where they were playing.  She took them upstairs.  It was at the time when they were building the balaua.  Not long after that they made Libon, [239] and they invited Gaygayoma and all their relatives from the other towns and they danced for one month.  Then the people from the other towns went home.  As soon as all the people had gone home Aponitolau went to take back the boy to his mother Gaygayoma.

When they arrived where Gaygayoma lived he gave the boy to her and he staid there three days.  After three days he went back home, and he said, “I am going now, but I will come back in a few days, for I cannot live here all the time, for we, Ipogau, are accustomed to live below, and I also have another wife there.  I cannot leave Aponibolinayen alone most of the time.”  So Gaygayoma let him go down and she said, “Yes, you may go, but you come back sometimes.”  “It is good that Tabyayen came down and made Sayang with us.”  Then he went down again.  When he arrived down Aponibolinayen was glad to see him, for she feared he would not return to Kadalayapan.  Not long after they arranged for Kanag to be married, and as soon as Kanag was married they arranged for Tabyayen also and he lived down below and Gaygayoma always staid above.

(Told by Lagmani, a man of Domayko.)

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“I am going to wash my hair,” said Aponitolau.  Not long after he went to the river and washed his hair.  As soon as he finished he took a bath and went back home.  When he arrived in his house he said, “Aponibolinayen, please comb my hair.”  “Take the comb and go to Indiapan, for I have no time,” answered Aponibolinayen.  “If you have no time, give it to me then,” said Aponitolau.  Aponibolinayen was angry and went to get it for him.  “What is the matter that you cannot go and get it yourself?” As soon as he got it Aponitolau went to Indiapan.