![]() ![]() ![]() The people eagerly waited Malana's return. He loaded cavans of palay to seven bamboo rafts. Malana understood the hazards of the journey but finally volunteered to take the journey. It was very difficult and dangerous to journey the place, because the river to cross was wide and full of crocodiles. Their only hope of starving off came from a very distant place, Sto. The people were in grip of appalling famine. When Malana was eighteen, a devastating typhoon destroyed all the crops of Malaueg. There was another young man from Malaueg, called Malana who was gifted with powers similar to that of Biuag. ![]() No one could tell where this lady came from nor could anyone say who this lady was. In the town of Tuao, he fell in love with a young lady with unsurpassed beauty. Despite all these powers, Biuag seemed troubled and unhappy. On account of this display of extraordinary strength, people from far and wide places came to see him. He could uproot a big beetle nut as if it were a wood. He could throw easily a carabao across the hills when he was only at the age of twelve. The other two stones gave him supernatural powers and prowess. When he was big enough to swim across the wide river, the crocodiles created a path for him. Instead, she placed three small stones around the neck of the baby where one stone protected him from any bodily harm. When it dawned on the child's mother that her visitor was a goddess, she knelt and implored her child with long life. When he was born, his mother was visited by an exceptionally beautiful woman who silently admired the baby. Biuag was from Enrile, the southern most part of Cagayan. ![]()
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