ORIGIN OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

Ud agayao inmali sinan lota din Lumawig, ut inbuina dinisay babayi. Sia

adadu ditonodna ay babayi. Inapada ta bakun eda di masauwana, Dayida

ipaeda din posok sindaon di kaugunda. Din Lumawig sinongsongna din

posok, ian adina layidun.

Sia kinwanina sin asauwana, "Sakun mantaoliak ud tagoi; alayuk

dingudwan din anakta ya makayan dingudwana." Sia ginudwana din anakta,

ut inana din toktokna. Din toktona mabungut tan iwud din awakna ut

nanbugan. Din Lumawig sinapona din awak ya dinsikina, ut sia dinkedo.

Din gudwana ay binayan din Lumawig adi makali, ut sia inmali loman

ut sinapona din toktok, ut masauwana din kedo ut sia din kimat.

Long ago Lumawig came to the earth and married a girl. She had many

sisters. They were jealous because he had not married them. They

put garlic under their beds. Lumawig smelled the garlic and did not

like it.

He said to his wife, "I shall return to the sky; I shall take half

of our child and leave half." He divided the child into halves, and

took the head. The head was angry because it did not have its body,

and talked loudly. Lumawig made it a body and legs, and it became

the Thunder.

The half that Lumawig left could not talk, but he returned again

and made (it a) head, and it married the Thunder, and it (became)

the Lightning.

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