Labaw Donggon

(English version of a Visayan epic)

Labaw Dongon was the son of Anggoy Alunsina and Buyung Paubari. He was a very
handsome young man who fell in love with Abyang Ginbitinan. He showered Anggoy
Matang-ayon, the mother of Abyang Ginbitinan with precious gifts so she would let
him marry Abyang. They invited the whole town to their wedding. Not long after that,
Labaw fell in love again with another beautiful woman named Anggoy Doronoon. He
courted her and soon they were married.

Labaw Dongon was the son of Anggoy Alunsina and Buyung Paubari

Then again, Labaw fell in love for the third time with another woman named
Nagmalitong Yawa Sinagmaling Diwata. But the woman was married to Buyung
Saragnayan, who, like him, had a magical power.

Kill me first before you can have my wife, Buyung Saragnayan told him.
I'm ready to fight you, Labaw answered Saragnayan.

They fought each other for years using their strange magical powers but Labaw could
not kill Saragnayan. It seemed that Saragnayan's power was stronger than Labaw's.

Labaw was overpowered and he was tied and detained at the pigpen of Saragnayan.
Meanwhile, his wives, Abyang Ginbitinan and Anggoy Doronoon gave birth to their
first borns. Abyang named her son Asu Mangga and Anggoy Doronoon called her son
Buyung Baranugun. These two sons of Labaw wanted to see him and they decided to
find him. With the help of Buyung Baranugun's crystal ball, they learned that Labaw
was taken prisoner of Saragnayan. The two brothers successfully freed their father who
was so old and his body was entirely covered with long hair.

You should find out first the secret of Saragnayan's power before you fight
him! Labaw told his two sons.
Yes, father, replied Baranugun. I will send Taghuy and Duwindi to Abyang Alunsini
to ask her of the secret of Saragnayan's power.
Baranugun leraned from Abyang that Saragnayan's breath was being kept and taken
cared of by a wild boar in the mountain. He and Asu Mangga went to the mountain and
slew the boar. They ate the heart of the animal that was the life of Saragnayan.

Saragnayan suddenly felt weak. He knew what had happened. He bade goodbye to
Nagmalitong Yawa. He was now ready to confront the two sons of Labaw. It was only
Baranugun who faced him in bloody fight. He was slain by Baranugun in a hand-to-hand
combat. After the fight, Baranugun and Asu Mangga looked for their father. They found
him crammed inside a net of Saragnayan. He was afraid of the brothers of Saragnayan.
Baranugunh killed them all and freed Labaw from the net.

When Abyang Ginbitinan and Anggoy Doronoon saw Labaw, they wept in sorrow.
They found out that Labaw could no longer hear and use his mental faculties. They
bathe him, cloth him and fed him. They took care of him. Meanwhile, Buyung
Humadapnon and Buyung Dumalapdap, brothers-in-law of Anggoy Ginbitinan married
Burigadang Pada Sinaklang Bulawan and Lubaylubyok Hanginon Mahuyukhuyukon
respectively. The two women were the beautiful sisters of Nagmalitong Yawa.

When Labaw Donggon learned of the marriage, he told his two wives that he wanted to
marry Nagmalitong Yawa Sinagmaling Diwata.

I want to have another baby boy! declared Labaw Donggon.

Abyang Gingibitan and Anggoy Doronoon were shocked to hear his request but because
they loved Labaw so much, they gave in to his wish. Labaw laid down on the floor and
the two women jumped over him, bringing back his strength and sharpness of mind.
Labaw cried out in joy and his voice reverberated over the land.

Labaw Donggon is about the amorous exploits of the son of a goddess Alunsina, by a
mortal, Datu Paubari. The polygamous hero battles the huge monster Manaluntad for the
hand of Abyang Ginbitinan; then he fights Sikay Padalogdog, the giant with a hundred
arms to win Abyang Doronoon and confronts the lord of darkness, Saragnayan, to win
Nagmalitong Yawa Sinagmaling Diwata.
 Alim
(English version of an Ifugao epic)
n the olden days, the people angered the gods and the goddesses because of their sins and
continued disobedience to the will of the gods. The gods sent a great flood that submerged the
whole earth and destroyed all the living creatures, plants and animals alike. There were only
two people who survived the flood. They were brother and sister, Wigan and Bugan
respectively.
When the water started to rise which later became the great flood, Wigan climbed the Amuyaw
Mountain to save himself. Likewise, Bugan fled to the Kalawitan Mountain to take refuge.

Bugan stayed at the mountain until the water receded and the water soaked ground had dried up.
He came down the mountain and discovered that he alone had survived. Everybody got
drowned, even the animals. Dead bodies were scattered everywhere, stinking. As he walked
around looking for something to eat, he saw a woman half buried to the ground, waving her
hand at him. Then he recognized her.

Bugan! he said happily as he opened his arms to embrace her.

Wigan, my brother, she said choking because of the feeling she could not contain. She let him
hug and embraced her and she leaned her head on her chest.

Where are the others? Wigan asked her after the embrace.
Dead, she answered, all dead. It seems that we are the only ones who survived the flood.

They walked around to see if they cound find some more survivors but they did not find any. All
they saw were dead bodies of men, animals and even plants.

They scouted for a place where they could comfortably stay. They found a place near the shore
where plants starting to grow. They built a small hut from the woods scattered around by the
great flood. Then they buried the stinking dead bodies the found near the shore.

Im hungry, said Bugan when they were already resting after burying the dead bodies.

Me too, said Wigan. Stay here and I'll see if I can catch some fish in the sea.
Do you think there are fish there? Bugan asked him.
The plants are already growing abundantly. Perhaps the gods' wrath have been pacified and
the school of fishes have come back to the sea.

There were fishes in the sea all right. That night, they ate a sumptuous supper of boiled fish.
They spent the night sleeping together. After several days, Bugan found herself pregnant. She
went to the shore to drown herself because she was ashamed of herself getting pregnant by his
brother. But before she could get near the deep part of the angry sea, an old man appeared before
her. He told her that he was Makanungan, the gods of the Ifugaos. They got married by
Makanungan and they had nine children, five boys and four girls.

Then came a great famine. The soil produced poor harvest. They killed a rat and offered it to
Makanungan but the poor harvest continued.

What shall we do? Bugan asked her brother and later became her husband Wigan one night
while they were about to sleep. We will all die of hunger if this poor harvest continues.
 I don't know why Makanungan is angry with us. Perhaps he didn't like the rat we offered him.

Why don't we offer him our son, Igon?

They all decided to kill Igon, the youngest, and offered him to Makanungan. True enough, the
poor harvest was abated. But Makanungan once again appeared before them and told them that
what they did to Igon was outrageous. Then Makanungan scattered them to the four corners of
the earth, to the East and West and to the North and South. And as a curse to what they did to
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