Bagan

Role: daughter of Bagutayka · First appears: Tale 42

In Tale 42, Bagutayka had one daughter, Bagan. At Lantágan, Bagan refused a boy who wished to marry her because she had no vagina and was ashamed. In a short time, a man passing by became sick in his knees and could not move his hands or feet. Bagan went to his house and told him to make bawi; after they performed the ritual, he recovered and could walk as before.

Relationship record

Life events

• Bagan refused the boy who wished to marry her.(Tale 42 · 📍 Lantágan)
  • With: the boy who lived in Lantágan
  • “A boy who lived in Lantágan wished to marry Bagan, but she did not wish to marry him because she had no vagina, and she was ashamed.”
• Bagan made a passing man sick in his knees and feet.(Tale 42)
  • With: a man (Tale 42)
  • “When people are passing, you will make them sick in their knees or feet. Then poor Bagan went by the roadside. In a short time a man passed by her; after that he was sick in his knees and did not walk, he only lived in his house, and could not move his hands or feet.”
• Bagan performed the bawi ritual, and the sick man recovered his ability to walk.(Tale 42)
  • With: a man (Tale 42)
  • “When they had done this, the man who was sick was as good as if he had not been sick, he could walk just as before.”

Tale 42

• parent: Bagutayka “Many years ago there was a woman whose name was Bagutayka. She had had only one daughter whose name was Bagan.”
• admirer: the boy who lived in Lantágan “A boy who lived in Lantágan wished to marry Bagan, but she did not wish to marry him because she had no vagina, and she was ashamed.”
• recipient: a man (Tale 42) (Bagan carries out the healing ritual for the sick man.) “Then Bagan went to see him in his house and told him to make bawi. The sick man said to her, ‘How do we make bawi, for we have never heard about that?’ Bagan said, ‘Bring me a white cloth, a basket of rice, some thread, a betel-nut, coconut, a rooster, and toknang.’ They brought all of these, and Bagan took them. Then they built a bawi in the garden and planted the sucker by it. They broke the coconut shell, killed the rooster, and took his feathers to put in the coconut husk, and they broke the coconut meat. They made sablau near the bawi and put the coconut meat in it. When they had done this, the man who was sick was as good as if he had not been sick, he could walk just as before.”

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