Kabkabaga-an

First appears: Tale 15

In Tale 15, Kabkabaga-an became pregnant by Aponitolau and gave birth to their son, Tabyayen. Using magic, she made him grow rapidly as she bathed him. When Aponitolau came for Tabyayen, Kabkabaga-an agreed to let him go, after speaking with her brother Daldalipáto. She told Aponitolau, “I have no husband and I live alone; that is why I brought you up here, for I love you.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Kabkabaga-an became pregnant by Aponitolau and gave birth to their son, Tabyayen.(Tale 15)
  • With: Aponitolau Tabyayen
  • “Not long after she became pregnant and she gave birth. ‘What shall we call the baby?’ said Ligi ‘Tabyayen.’”
• Tabyayen rapidly grew into a young boy through Kabkabaga-an's magic.(Tale 15)
  • With: Tabyayen
  • “Not long after the baby began to grow, for Kabkabaga-an used magic, so that he grew all the time, and every time she bathed him he grew.”
• Kabkabaga-an agreed that Aponitolau could take Tabyayen with him.(Tale 15)
  • With: Aponitolau Tabyayen
  • “‘Do you want to give him up to Aponitolau? If you let him go, it is all right,’ said Daldalipáto, and Kabkabaga-an said, ‘All right.’”

Tale 15

• child: Tabyayen “Not long after she became pregnant and she gave birth. ‘What shall we call the baby?’ said Ligi ‘Tabyayen.’”
• siblings with Daldalipáto “She said, ‘We will tell my brother Daldalipáto, who lives above, if you wish to take him.’”
• recipient: Aponitolau “Kabkabaga-an gave him a drink of water.”
• courtship with Aponitolau (Their relationship is expressed as love and results in a pregnancy.) “I have no husband and I live alone; that is why I brought you up here, for I love you.”

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