Galinginayen

Role: boy · First appears: Tale 22 · Part 1

In Tale 22 · Part 1, Gamayawán named the baby Galinginayen and used magic when bathing him, making him grow and, before long, fly. When it became day, she took him to Kadalayapan and left him beside the sleeping Aponitolau, who is called Ligi in the tale. Ligi woke, found the boy beside him with his lost balangat, and was surprised; that afternoon Gamayawán came to take Galinginayen back.

In Tale 22 · Part 2, Ligi again found Galinginayen beside him when he woke, and they hid the boy. Five days later, Ligi proposed building a balaua and making Sayang to find the boy’s mother. Galinginayen recognized the Agta as his mother and wanted to go to her, but did not when she winked at him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Gamayawán named the baby Galinginayen and used magic to make him grow and fly.(Tale 22 · Part 1)
  • With: Gamayawán
  • “Gamayawán gave him a bath and he grew about one span, for she used her magic. Not long after the baby was large, for she always used her magic when she bathed him. Not long after the baby could fly.”
• Gamayawán took Galinginayen to Kadalayapan and left him beside the sleeping Ligi.(Tale 22 · Part 1 · 📍 Kadalayapan)
  • With: Gamayawán Aponitolau
  • “As soon as they reached the balaua they put the boy beside the man who was sleeping.”
• Ligi found Galinginayen beside him and recognized his lost balangat with the boy.(Tale 22 · Part 1 · 📍 Kadalayapan)
  • With: Aponitolau
  • “Ligi was surprised when he saw the boy beside him when he woke up. ‘Why here is a boy by me, with my balangat which I lost when I went to take a bath,’ said Ligi”
• In the afternoon Gamayawán came to Kadalayapan to take Galinginayen back from beside Ligi.(Tale 22 · Part 1 · 📍 Kadalayapan)
  • With: Gamayawán
  • “When it became afternoon Gamayawán went to get the boy.”
• Ligi and the others hid Galinginayen beside Ligi again.(Tale 22 · Part 2 · 📍 Kadalayapan)
  • With: Aponitolau
  • “As soon as Ligi woke up he saw the boy by him again, and they at once hid him.”
• Ligi proposed building balaua and making Sayang to find the boy’s mother.(Tale 22 · Part 2 · 📍 Kadalayapan)
  • With: Aponitolau
  • “Five days later Ligi told his mother he thought they should build balaua. ‘We are going to make Sayang, mother, for we want to find the mother of this boy.’”
• Galinginayen recognized the Agta as his mother.(Tale 22 · Part 2 · 📍 Kadalayapan)
  • With: Gamayawán
  • “he wanted to go to her, but the Agta winked at him and he did not go to her though he recognized her as his mother.”

Tale 22 · Part 1

• parent: Gamayawán (The boy addresses Gamayawán as mother; she is the one who brings him to Ligi.) “As soon as they reached the balaua they put the boy beside the man who was sleeping. ‘Stay here and wait, do not fall down,’ they said to him. ‘Yes, mother,’ said the boy.”
• parent: Aponitolau (The alan identifies Ligi as the boy's father.) “The best thing for you to do, so you can do much work, is for you to carry him to Kadalayapan and give him to his father”

Tale 22 · Part 2

• parent: Gamayawán “he wanted to go to her, but the Agta winked at him and he did not go to her though he recognized her as his mother.”
• parent: Aponitolau “Galinginayen was carried by his father and he took him past all the people and he noticed none of them”

Tale 22 · Part 3

• parent: Aponitolau “the boy said, when he saw his mother, ‘How bad my father is, for he gave my mother the old blankets which the dogs lie on.’”
• parent: Gamayawán “she is the cause of my making Sayang, for I wanted to find out who was the mother of the boy. Now she is his mother.”

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