Linongan

Role: daughter of Awig and Aponibolinayen · First appears: Tale 25 · Part 1

In Tale 25 · Part 1, Awig tells his daughter Linongan to watch the rice, while Aponibolinayen objects that she should not be sent because she is a girl. At the watch house, the bravest cuts Linongan in two at the waist; Awig recovers her head and the valuable things placed on her. In Tale 25 · Part 2 at Natpangan, Awig joins her head and body, and she begins to sweat. Alokotán puts saliva around the cut to join it, then snaps her waking perfume, and Linongan wakes.

In Tale 25 · Part 2, Awig makes four branches into a balaua. Linongan dances with Iwaginan until their dance floods the town, and Awig and Alokotán tell them to stop. In Tale 25 · Part 3, Iwaginan becomes engaged to Linongan, and the marriage payment is made for her. At Pindayan, he says, “I made the magic pool and cured the cut in her side which I saw.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The bravest cut Linongan in two at the waist.(Tale 25 · Part 1 · 📍 watch house)
  • With: the bravest (Tale 25)
  • “When the young men got away he cut her in two at her waist.”
• Awig recovered Linongan’s head and took the valuable things placed on her.(Tale 25 · Part 1)
  • With: Awig (Tale 25)
  • “He put a basket on his back, and he went to put the head of his daughter in the basket. He took the head into the middle of the circle, and he took all the valuable things which the alzados had put on her.”
• Awig joins Linongan’s body and head, and she begins to sweat.(Tale 25 · Part 2 · 📍 Natpangan)
  • With: Awig (Tale 25) Aponibolinayen
  • “When he arrived in their house he joined the body and the head. They looked at her and she was sweating.”
• Alokotán joins Linongan’s cut body and uses her power to awaken her.(Tale 25 · Part 2 · 📍 Natpangan)
  • With: Awig (Tale 25) Alokotán
  • “When the old woman had finished to talk to them she put saliva around the cut on Linongan and caused it to join. When she finished joining it, ‘I use my power so that when I snap my perfume which is called dagimonau ('to wake up') she will wake up at once.’ When she snapped her perfume Linongan woke up at once.”
• Awig magically transforms four branches into a balaua.(Tale 25 · Part 2)
  • With: Awig (Tale 25) Aponibolinayen Alokotán
  • “Not long after Awig went to take four small branches of the tree and he used magic, ‘I use my power so that when the four sticks will stand they will become a balaua.’ He used his power and truly the four sticks became a balaua”
• Awig and Alokotán stop Linongan and Iwaginan from dancing when their dance floods the town.(Tale 25 · Part 2)
  • With: Awig (Tale 25) Alokotán Iwaginan
  • “When they were still dancing the water flowed, only a little while, and it was only knee deep, ‘Ala, you Iwaginan and Linongan, stop dancing because we are deluged,’ said Awig and the old woman Alokotán.”
• Iwaginan became engaged to Linongan.(Tale 25 · Part 3)
  • With: Iwaginan
  • “the people went home and Iwaginan was engaged to Linongan.”
• The marriage payment was made for Linongan.(Tale 25 · Part 3)
  • With: Iwaginan Aponibolinayen Awig (Tale 25) Dinowágan
  • “Not long after they made pakálon.”
• Iwaginan cured Linongan's scar with a magical pool.(Tale 25 · Part 3 · 📍 Pindayan)
  • With: Iwaginan
  • “I made the magic pool and cured the cut in her side which I saw”

Tale 25 · Part 1

• parent: Awig (Tale 25) “Ala, you my daughter Linongan live here and watch our rice, I will come to see you.”
• parent: Aponibolinayen “Why do you dislike our daughter Linongan? Do not make her go to watch for she is a girl.”
• enemies with the bravest (Tale 25) “When the young men got away he cut her in two at her waist.”

Tale 25 · Part 2

• parent: Aponibolinayen “Ala, Awig you go and command someone to get the old woman Alokotán. When she speaks to the cut on our daughter's body the body and head will join better,” said Aponibolinayen to Awig.”
• parent: Awig (Tale 25) “Ala, Awig you go and command someone to get the old woman Alokotán. When she speaks to the cut on our daughter's body the body and head will join better,” said Aponibolinayen to Awig.”
• benefactor: Alokotán “When the old woman had finished to talk to them she put saliva around the cut on Linongan and caused it to join.”

Tale 25 · Part 3

• engaged with Iwaginan “Iwaginan was engaged to Linongan.”
• parent: Aponibolinayen “Aponibolinayen said, ‘We do not wish that our daughter be married yet,’”
• parent: Awig (Tale 25) “‘I like her, but it is better for her to be married. He seems to have power. Don't you know that a girl has many dangers? It is better for her to be married, because she is the only daughter we have,’ said Awig.”
• married with Iwaginan “‘Ala, my wife we go to Pindayan to see our mother Dinowágan,’ said Iwaginan.”
• benefactor: Iwaginan “‘I made the magic pool and cured the cut in her side which I saw,’ he said.”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Tinguian. Made with Rho MD.