The journey to Ifugao land from the East.--Upon the return of
Muntálog, at the termination of the fourth day, he said to Búgan
and Kabigát: "Now ye can go but let Ngílîn and Ambúmabbákal
accompany you as far as the house of Lingan, [42] in order that
there they may make the cloth or clothes necessary for wrapping
the child according to the usage of the Earth World."
Lingan actually furnished to them the cloth and the seamstress to
make the swaddling clothes for the child--and then they continued
their journey unto the house of Ambúmabbákal. The latter said to
them: "Take this cloth and this pair of fowls, male and female,
and do not return to live at Kai-áhang but go to Otbóbon." And
Ambúmabbákal accompanied them to the house of Ngílîn á Mangóngan
[43] and said to the latter: "It will be well if we beseech the
búni [44] to take pity on these poor people, considering the great
distance that still remains to them unto Otbóbon, and keeping
in mind also the great heat that prevails." So they did, saying:
"Ye búni, take pity upon these unhappy ones and shorten for them
the distance." The prayer was heard, and after two or three days
they found themselves at the end of their journey.
V
The peopling of Ifugao land.--Having arrived at Otbóbon, they
built a temporary hut on fertile land. Later they constructed
a good house, and it was just after it was finished that Búgan
gave birth to a healthy boy; and the fowls also procreated.
The child grew a little, but there came to him an unlooked-for
sickness. Then Kabigát remembered that Ambúmabbákal had advised
them to offer fowls to their ancestors in case any sickness
should come upon them. So they killed a rooster and a hen, and
offered them to Ampúal, Wigan, and their other ancestors. The
child recovered and began to grow very robust and plump. They
named him Balitúk. Búgan conceived again, and she gave birth to a
strong girl, to whom she gave the name of Lingan. These children
grew up, and, having attained a marriageable age, were married
like their parents, and gave origin to the Silipanes. [45]
Their parents, Kabigát and Búgan, had a second son, on whom they
placed the name Tad-óna, and then another daughter, whom they
called Inúke. She and Tad-óna did what their parents and brother
and sister had done, and gave birth to Kabigát, the second, and
Búgan, the second. These latter two, imitating the preceding ones,
were united in wedlock and begot sons and daughters who peopled
the remainder of the Ifugao region. [46]