Ebang

Also known as: Ebang of Kaodanan · Family: The people of Kaodanan · Role: mother of Aponibolinayen · First appears: Tale 1 · Part 2

In Tale 1 · Part 2, Ebang and Pagatipánan found their daughter Aponibolinayen by a well after she had gone missing. In Tale 1 · Part 3, when Aponibolinayen’s mother pricked her itchy finger, a baby popped out; the family could not get her to say where the baby came from, so Ebang and Pagatipánan held a balaua and used magic when bathing the child until it grew enough to walk. Ebang called her husband to make a balaua for their grieving relatives, and Pagatipánan said they would hold it the following month because Aponibolinayen felt ill.

In Tale 2 · Part 2, after the balaua, they took the group to Kadalayapan, where an alan gave them her valuable things and flew away. In Tale 4 · Part 2, Ebang and Aponibalagen agreed to Aponibolinayen’s marriage to Aponitolau, and Langa-an paid the marriage price. In Tale 5 · Part 2, Aponibolinayen named Ebang and Pagbokásan as her parents and Aponibalagen as her brother.

In Tale 6 · Part 1, Ebang told Aponibolinayen, “Do not go,” but could not detain her and made a cake before she left to fight. In Tale 6 · Part 3, a betel-nut spittle test revealed that Dangdangáyan was Pagbokásan’s son and that the young men were relatives; Ebang took Dangdangáyan and carried him as if he were a baby. At Kaodanan, Ebang and Pagbokásan accepted Lingiwan as a son and agreed on a day for pakálon. In Tale 6 · Part 5, Ebang used magic to fill the balaua five times with jars.

In Tale 8 · Part 3, Ebang and Pagbokásan learned by chewing betel-nut that Balbalaoga was Awig’s after-birth, and took him and Aponibolinayen to Kaodanan. In Tale 23, betel-nut quids revealed that Aponibolinayen was Ebang and Pagatipánan’s daughter; they called her Aponibolinayen and called Ligi Aponitolau.