_gakot_ to the _legpet_
who are quarreling. "And what can you all do if I am not, who am
grass? you all decay if I am not," said the grass (roof) to those
who are quarreling. "Therefore we are all the same use to the house
of the Ipogau; we will unite our thoughts and breath, so that in the
same manner the thoughts of the Ipogau are united, who live in us,"
said those who are quarreling. And they united their thoughts and
breath. After that the Ipogau who were sick were cured, those who
lived in the house. It was as if there was nothing bad for that family.

40 [330]

The great spirit lives in the sky, and he is carrying the goods of
the people. He says to himself, "To whom shall I give these goods
which I am carrying? I shall take them to the earth." He looked down
on Bisau, for the people there promised to make _Ubaya_. Soon the
people saw a man entering the town and they sent a man to prevent him
[331]. He said, "Let me come in, for I bring goods for you. Your food
and animals and other things which you need shall be increased." After
that he said, "Let all the people in the world know of this so that
they will make _Ubaya_ for me, and I will aid them also."

41

Dayapan was a woman who lived in Ka-alang. For seven years she was
sick. She went to the spring to bathe and while she was in the water
a spirit sent by Kadaklan [332] entered her body. The spirit held
sugar-cane and rice. He said to her, "Take this sugar-cane and rice
and plant them in the ground. After you reap the sugar-cane and rice,
you will build a bin to hold the rice, and a sugar mill for the cane;
after that you will make _Sayang_ and that will make you well." Dayapan
took those things and went back home. She planted the sugar-cane and
rice. When she was planting, the spirit entered her body again and
taught her how to plant. When she reaped the sugar-cane and rice,
she began to make _Sayang_. The spirit Kaboniyan went again into her
to teach her how to make _Sayang_. The spirit said, "Send a man to
get _bolo_ (bamboo) and weave it into _talapitap_. [333] Take _lono_
and _bolo_ as big as a finger and make _dakidak_, and put a jar with
water upstairs in the house. Dance _daeng_ [334] for ten nights. You
will pass seven evenings, then you will build _balaua_. [335] Send
some persons to get wood and bamboo and rattan and cogon, and take
ten baskets with cooked rice to follow the number of nights (i.e.,
on the first night one basket of cook