The Great Flood
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- A wild uproar followed as the guards screamed and fled thegates. Aponi-tolau hurriedly picked up the unconscious body of the sea-maiden,loaded it on his rattan raft and rowed shoreward. Shortly after the Tinggianhero had left the bauwi (native hunt) gates, Tau-Mari-u went out of his abodeto see what the commotion was all about. But he was too late.
- But Tau-mari-u was furious. He immediately called a meeting of the gods and demigods of the seas and the oceans, who agreed to punish the dwellers of the land for what Aponi-tolau had done.
- In his rage, Tau-mari-u summoned the waves and the tunas ofthe sea and ordered them to bring back the intruder. The waves lashed at theraft of the mountain warrior and the tunas pushed it back.
- Alarmed, Aponi-tolau cried out to his mother, Lang-an of Kadalayapan, mistress of the wind and rain, for help. The great godess heard her son’s plea and immediately sent down strong winds to pull Aponi-tolaua shore. Despite the fury of the waves and efforts of the tunas, the Tinggian warrior was able to reach the shore unharmed.
- Despite his anger, the water lord took pity upon his favorite Humitau. So he called back the water and the waves. But he promised that henceforth he would sink men’s boats and drown passengers until Aponi-tolau’s crime would be appeased. When the water subsided, Aponi-tolau and his wife went down to the low lands and from them came the people of the world.
- From the sky, Lang-an knew the plan. She immediately called for the north wind and sent him to warn her son of the impending flood, she instructed the mountain lord to go to the highest peak of the Cordillera mountains for safety. Obediently, Aponi-tolau took the members of his household to the mountain top and waited. The flood came. From this bauwi Aponi-tolau saw mighty waves sweeping across the plains, filling the valleys and destroying the crops and working animals of the inhabitants. Higher and higher went the water until it covered the mountain top but for the few square meters where Aponi-tolau and his household took shelter.
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