Dolimáman

Role: Wadagan's wife · First appears: Tale 24

In Tale 24, Dolimáman is Wadagan’s wife. In the middle of the day, he pricked her finger with a thorn, and Kanag—called Kanag Kabagbagowan in this tale—popped out. Whenever Dolimáman bathed him, she used her power to make him grow rapidly.

Not long after, Wadagan falsely told Dolimáman that he did not know where Kanag was. She found him with Alokotán, who said she had found the boy on the river after his father put him there and had taken him in so someone could inherit her things. At Nagbotobotán, Dolimáman chose to stay with Alokotán rather than return to Wadagan: “my husband Wadagan does not like us.” Magic moved their golden house from Kadalayapan to Nagbotobotán; Wadagan returned home, while Dolimáman and Kanag stayed there with Dagoláyan.

Relationship record

Life events

• Wadagan pricked Dolimáman’s finger, and Kanag Kabagbagowan was born.(Tale 24)
  • With: Wadagan Kanag
  • “So Wadagan stuck her finger with the thorn and as soon as he did so a little baby popped out.”
• Dolimáman used her power to make Kanag grow rapidly whenever she bathed him.(Tale 24)
  • With: Kanag
  • “She always said this when she bathed him and every time the baby grew.”
• Wadagan falsely told Dolimáman that he did not know where Kanag was.(Tale 24)
  • With: Wadagan
  • “Wadagan said, ‘I do not know. I think he is playing with the other boys in the east.’”
• Dolimáman found Kanag with Alokotán and learned that he had been taken from the river.(Tale 24)
  • With: Kanag Alokotán
  • “Yes, that is your mother, but your father put you on the river when you were a little boy, and I found you there and I took you, so I might have someone to inherit my things.”
• Dolimáman chose to stay with Alokotán rather than return home to Wadagan.(Tale 24 · 📍 Nagbotobotán)
  • With: Alokotán
  • “Ala, my Aunt, now we are not going home we will stay here, because my husband Wadagan does not like us.”
• Magic moved Dolimáman and Alokotán’s golden house from Kadalayapan to Nagbotobotán.(Tale 24 · 📍 Nagbotobotán)
  • With: Alokotán
  • “So they used magic so that their house in Kadalayapan went to Nagbotobotán, and the people were surprised at the noise made by the house when it went to Nagbotobotán.”
• Wadagan returned home while Dolimáman and Kanag stayed in Nagbotobotán.(Tale 24 · 📍 Nagbotobotán)
  • With: Wadagan Kanag
  • “So Wadagan went back home and he went everywhere and Dolimáman, Kanag and Dagoláyan staid in Nagbotobotán.”

Tale 24

• married with Wadagan “There was a man named Wadagan, and his wife was Dolimáman.”
• child: Kanag “Here is my son now,”

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