Language Functions Developing English Competencies 3 Kelas 12 Achmad Doddy Achmad Sugeng Effendi 2009
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Developing English Competencies f or Grade XII of Language Programme
In the beginning there lived one man and one woman, Toglai and
Toglibon. Their À rst children were a
boy and a girl. When they were old enough, the boy and the girl went far
away across the waters seeking nice place to live in. Nothing more was
heard of them until their children, the Spaniards and Americans, came back.
After the
À rst boy and girl left, other children were born to the couple; but
they all remained at Cibolan on Mount Apo with their parents, until Toglai and
Toglibon died and became spirits. Soon after that there came a great drought
which lasted for three years. All the waters dried up, so that there were no
rivers, and no plants could live.
“Surely,” said the people, “Manama is punishing us, and we must go
elsewhere to À nd food and a place to
dwell in.” So they started out. Two went in
the direction of the sunset, carrying with them stones from Cibolan River.
After a long journey they reached a place with broad
À elds of cogon grass and an abundance of water, and there
they made their home. Their children still live in that place and are called
Magindanau, because of the stones which the couple carried when they
left Cibolan. Two children of Toglai and
Toglibon went to the south, seeking a home, and they carried with them a
women’s baskets baraan. When they found a good spot, they settled down.
Their descendants, still dwelling at that place, are called Baraan or Bilaan,
because of the women’s baskets.
So two by two the children of the À rst couple left the land of their birth.
In the place where each settled a new people developed, and thus it came
about that all the tribes in the world received their names from things that
the people carried out of Cibolan, or from the places where they settled.
All the children left Mount Apo except two a boy and a girl. Hunger
and thirst had made them too weak to travel. One day when they were about
to die the boy crawled out to the
À eld to see if there was one living thing,
and to his surprise he found a stalk of sugarcane growing lustily. He eagerly
cut it, and enough water came out to refresh him and his sister until the rains
came. Because of this, their children are called Bagobo.
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