Aponibalagen

Also known as: Aponibalagen of Natpangan · Family: The people of Kaodanan · Role: son of Ebang and Pagbokásan; brother of Aponibolinayen · First appears: Tale 2 · Part 1

In Tale 2 · Part 2, Aponibolinayen names Aponibalagen as her brother and says they are the children of Ebang and Pagbokásan. After the balaua was finished, they went to Kadalayapan, where an alan gave them her valuable things and flew away. In Tale 2 · Part 3, Aponibalagen lived with Aponigawani at Kadalayapan; in the morning he took her to Kaodanan, and her parents and other people followed. Her marriage payment was made.

In Tale 4 · Part 2, Langa-an went to Natpangan to tell Aponibalagen that Aponibolinayen was in Kadalayapan. Langa-an paid the marriage price for Aponibolinayen with Ebang’s agreement. In Tale 4 · Part 3, Aponibalagen asked to marry Aponigawani, became engaged to her, and paid her marriage price. After a month of dancing, she was taken to Kaodanan.

In Tale 5 · Part 1, Aponibalagen agreed to Gawigawen’s marriage to Aponibolinayen, and set the bride-price at eighteen balaua filled with valuable things. At Adasin, Aponibalagen cut off Taodan’s head, making a spring; Taodan’s body became a tree. In Tale 5 · Part 3, Aponibalagen agreed to repay Gawigawen’s marriage price. In Tale 10 · Part 1, he used magic to hide Aponibolinayen in Kabwa-an, left an old woman with her, and returned home. In Tale 10 · Part 2, he took her and the girls back to Kaodanan, gave the boy to Kagkagákag when the child chose him, and sent Aponibolinayen to Kagkagákag’s town despite her reluctance. In Tale 10 · Part 3, he married Aponigawani.

In Tale 19 · Part 3, Aponibalagen names himself the son of Pagatipánan and Ebang of Natpangan and the brother of Aponibolinayen. He and Aponigawani recognized Wanwanyen-Aponibolinayen as their daughter and paid the marriage price for her and Dumanau.