Dawinisan

Role: young girl · First appears: Tale 28

In Tale 28, Asbinan asked Alokotán to arrange his marriage to Dawinisan, but Dawinisan said she was not ready. When Asbinan pretended to be ill, Dawinisan went to him and rubbed his stomach; he sat up. They later tested their betel-nut quids, which showed that it was good for them to marry. Dawinisan agreed if her family’s requested price was paid. Her mother asked for nine balaua filled with golden deer and specified jars, and Alokotán used magic to provide them. Dawinisan’s parents and relatives then agreed that she and Asbinan could marry.

Relationship record

Life events

• Asbinan asked Alokotán to engage him to Dawinisan, but Dawinisan refused marriage for the time being.(Tale 28)
  • With: Asbinan Alokotán
  • “Ala, my grandmother Alokotán, go and engage me to Dawinisan who looks like the sunshine, for I want to marry her, said the young boy Asbinan.”
• Ayo and Alokotán proposed Asbinan's marriage to Dawinisan, who declined, saying she was not ready.(Tale 28)
  • With: Asbinan Aponibolinayen Alokotán the father of Dawinisan the mother of Dawinisan
  • “When they asked Dawinisan if she wished to marry Asbinan, she said, Oh, my mother, I am ashamed to marry yet, I do not know how to do anything; so I do not wish to be married now.”
• Asbinan used magic to enter his golden cup and pretended to be ill to persuade Dawinisan to see him.(Tale 28)
  • With: Asbinan
  • “When Asbinan could not get her to go to the window, he used magic and went inside of the golden cup, and he pretended that he was ill in his stomach.”
• Dawinisan rubbed Asbinan's stomach, and he sat up.(Tale 28)
  • With: Asbinan
  • “When she reached the porch, she rubbed the boy's stomach, and directly Asbinan sat up.”
• Asbinan and Dawinisan tested their betel-nut quids and concluded it was good for them to marry.(Tale 28)
  • With: Asbinan
  • “Not long after they chewed betel-nut, and when they laid down their quids they were agate beads, and they laid side by side; so they saw it was good for them to marry.”
• Dawinisan agreed to marry Asbinan if her family’s requested marriage price was provided.(Tale 28)
  • With: Asbinan
  • “Dawinisan said that if we have everything they want and will pay it for her, she will marry me.”
• The families agreed on a marriage price of nine balaua filled with golden deer and specified jars.(Tale 28)
  • With: Alokotán Asbinan the father of Dawinisan the mother of Dawinisan
  • “Her mother said, If you can fill our balaua nine times with gold shaped like deer, and jars which are addeban and ginlasan, Asbinan can marry our daughter.”
• Alokotán used magic to provide the requested marriage price, and the families agreed Asbinan and Dawinisan could marry.(Tale 28)
  • With: Alokotán Asbinan the father of Dawinisan the mother of Dawinisan
  • “So Alokotán used magic and the balaua was filled nine times with the things they wished, and there were more golden deer than jars. The father and mother and relatives of the girl said, Asbinan and our daughter Dawinisan can be married now.”
• Alokotán used magic to transfer the houses to Kadalayapan without the guests knowing.(Tale 28 · 📍 Kadalayapan)
  • With: Alokotán Asbinan
  • “When the pakálon was over, Alokotán used magic and she said, I use my power so that they will not know that they are transferred to Kadalayapan, and all the houses went to Kadalayapan.”

Tale 28

• admirer: Asbinan “‘Pretty, young girl, when I see you I am blinded by your beauty. I came here because I wish to marry you.’ ‘Oh, Asbinan! I am ashamed, but I do not want to be married yet,’ said Dawinisan.”
• parent: the mother of Dawinisan “When they asked Dawinisan if she wished to marry Asbinan, she said, “Oh, my mother, I am ashamed to marry yet, I do not know how to do anything; so I do not wish to be married now.”
• parent: the father of Dawinisan “The father and mother and relatives of the girl said, ‘Asbinan and our daughter Dawinisan can be married now.’”
• with Asbinan (They are stated to be related, but the specific kinship is not given.) “Not long after they chewed betel-nut, and when they laid down their quids they were agate beads, and they laid side by side; so they saw it was good for them to marry.”
• married with Asbinan “The father and mother and relatives of the girl said, ‘Asbinan and our daughter Dawinisan can be married now.’”

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