Ivatan, Batanes Oral History

#6C Ivatan Batanes Oral History
Itbayat Origin Legend – Daily Life of a Parent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hz2fQeWTTE&feature=related

                    IVATAN CONVERSATION
Itbayat
I.The following is first part on the cassette audio recording. However, it’s the Second Part on You Tube video.

4 min:32 sec: No vihay…  Nu nyaya nakapo (nakayapo) do familia namen am maytaketakey kami, ah/as uyod kame a matrabajo/mapapangto, as dawas… a ivihay (iviyay) namen sira so taru (atavo) sa manganak namen, ta wawaho sira. 4:44: As sichangoriaw yam am naychakovot dana sira.
4:47 As tayto kami pa a makanhay (makangay) do takey a maytrabajo (maytaketakey).  As kararaw kami a maysisiay a maytrabajo du takey namen tam na ma katiban namen no manganak namen ta maytapongod da na sira maypimaysa.
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5:00 Ahs do 76 saya a nahaway pa am akmay to kopa maparen nuo mayam a maytrabajo du takey.
5:07 Maysasah as, ka harvest (yani) siya, ka trabaho dia do idi dana, a lugar a ikomplin dana.
5:15 A’ e arahpah’va o oyud a kadwan a kavihayan (kaviayan) namen an dja  kapaytaketakey namen danaui. 5:20 Am na oyod  am ara pa’iva  uri  am ara paro o kavihayan ta.

The following applies to the whole Itbayat stories.

Note: 1. Please note that I have transcribed from both the cassette audio tape and from the video found on your files in www.youtube.com.
2.  Regarding this particular section, the Itbayat Story by Mrs Gato, the arrangement between the audio tape and the video recording is not the same.
3.  Please see the difference in the arrangements as I have noted on the beginning of each of the three parts.
4.  When you see something like Counter … those numbers were from the transcription machine.
5.  Italics and or those inside parenthesis are my explanations or the more common Ivatan word terminologies.      

 II. The following is the second part or section on the cassette audio recording. However, it is the First Part of the video on You Tube.com. Origin Story of Ivatan.

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Video Time: 0:00 to 0:19 intelligible

0:20 …Am, i (e), Ango ya? A panmahen mo ngaran mo as kano i vatajen mo lugar aya nya ya an djino katdan mo, as kan ka istorya mo na so istorya (ango) mo’aw. 0:32 An ka vata na anchi sia am nawri kasitnan mo sia. 0:34
‘On.’
0:36 Mrs Gato: “Yaken a si Andrea Gato. A maykavahayan do d’Itbayat aya. 0:41 An ato (taytu) ko rakoh a istoryahen am komapet dira da Podalang kan Raknan a mayripus sira a dadwa sira anak dana nu, on anak, am oyod sa maychadlao.  0:56 Ah, no kapitarek da sira nu iniapwan da, u lugar a itinde da sira du manoma do sirbien da kan no kanen da. 1:04 Ay, nu trabajo dania am maytataya sawon sa ‘ya. Am nu vatah da ya tokon di Podalan aya, am nya chono/kono wala dawi uve an  kahay no pitataya daui. 

1:17 Ah, an maay sumibo kono sa ya ma’ay (mangay) a manongoh so sirbyen dao dauwi am ari narana nipongosan no Ina daya’o baon (baon is a Tagalog word, ‘mavaw’ in Ivatan/Itbayat) da: “nyaw baon mo’m Rahnan; as nyaw baon mo’m Podalan.”

1:30 An mawara kono o ka-araw da am mirangang, miyasa sira pero, maytarek o niparinyan na sya no Ina da ya no tinoroh na ta may espesyal o kanen no Rahnan auri, as no da Podalan nauri am mian tanti (pa anti) uvi maytarek. 1:47 Na hatayan (atayan) ni kakteh naya alekey, am akoh (rakoh) na ichakey nauli. an tahaman na rana dana o, “Arawon dara na dira da Ama ta kan Ina ta,” kowana kono.

1:58 Tomanhis kono kaktej naya a alekey do ka (r)akoj akmay kahinyen na so kapitaywawa nauwi kan ichasi na. 2:06 Ichakey na intero ichakey na kono a kanen. No mayanong a kapaiivan da nauri.
2:13
Mian o asa ka vihanyayan da nia ta may kadin sira a mayripus, a’ do pikadinyan da. am naliman, kuwenta naliman dana si Raknan, ay ni Podalan aya.  Ah’nu paykadinyan  dawi am pirme ‘na’ kono a tindien nawi.  Ta nauri no kakteh nauri ta siya dana o imtindi dya.

were was always maintained by Podalan. But now it is the living brother left to look after this place. 2:33
Accordingly, whenever Raknan arrived late to do the chore of cleaning and maintaining, he will find it

2:38
Tayoka na ko kono panwidwidan so tatawoy kadin daya. No ka akmay no kaywaywam na siya do kakey na nya mapanmo an sino am namaras kono so oyod a aro ahs kavyavid na sya as kakopkop nauria, as kavovon narian ti  uri do kahay na akoh, kahay na ompakan an sino ompakan so kadin daya. 3:00
A mavavao kono am mawara kono maniwalao auri. Oyod kono a makontinto si ?(esnho?) aya. am mavoya am nao kauri nauri malujilojit no kaktej naya ta nabo dana auri uve. Nichepkep na kono siya so oyod a mabedbed., as kahahes na nia an djino  nihangayan na, 3:17“Ara ako pava do mundo, ta kakohayab ako pa a nabo.”

3:21 Podalan: “Ah eh ako, machivan ka.” “Na machivan ako do a ngayan mo,” Kuwana kono am “Machivan ka pa diaken ta oyod a mahara o inayam ko ta matarek dana inayam ko as marahan man.”

3:32 “An karahan mo siya am marahan ko,” kuwana kono nyi kakteh naya. No Raknan aya am intero macto na kono ava machivan.

3:39 Ahs tomanyes ko no sa mangay do an lugar dana yan taga... Siguro am hawaw rarahan na nauwi, ta do ka tovang na ko no nauwi siya no rakoh aya… no Raknan aya. Do kakaro na do ka dirana makey a om-kayvan siyao kakteh naya’m matenep kono e ?? mahab dorarahan naya a hawa! 
Ahna (As na), dino paro o lugar naya a paypakuwanan na nao? 4:01

4:02sec
Na nauwi tawsan nu katowiran ko siya. Paypasensiyan nyo  kahanaynyeden na, ta akmay ara ko pa ava oyod a kapanagapangarwan, a.

4:10sec
Nauri dana’o katoviran ko. A nakuwan danao nakapaysyay da maylipos. Ahs nakakaro nara naw diya.

4:23
Dya dawri pinakapakapyan no inyapwan nawri.

4:27sec : End of this part…

III. The following is the third part or section on the cassette audio recording. However, it is the Second Part of the video on youtube.com.

Ngay …

Part of Itbayat Origin Video
Video: Itbayat with Mrs Gato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hz2fQeWTTE

5:41
Kayob mo so, katanyes mo dyaw lugar mo so rayay, lugar mo panyetan mo so kaduan an dia kapaytaketakey a trabajo maykoyis. 5:51 An nipagan  nauri so maytrabajo an am no pagad sira paydjurogudon. 5:57
5:58
Kararaw am maytrabajo’m ari pasa o?? rakoh. 6:03 Yamen am do pamilya namen am ari pa aro maparen akma so kadwan a maibaka syo do papasto.  6:10 Ay so do ahad no pagad na am kapatawis ni maysa ko aya so rakoh lugar na industrial do kararayay sa do karkom  (kamangalkom/old) namen dana .

6:21 Ara pa dji/va lugar a maparen namen a kadwan. Tod kami naka asi so rakoh, nauri dana o lugar namen. 

6:30 Tayto pasa o kadwan a kahidyan/kaydian ta sa i makey sa umhakaw pa sira, mayvihinyay sira. 6:37 Akma dira a mian  so baka do pasto, am nauri sao ako nyo sa d’Itbayat. 6:42 Total time: min; 42sec

                  ENGLISH TRANSLATION

I.The following is first part on the cassette audio recording. However, it is the Second Part on You Tube video.

4 min:32 sec: The life… Ever since, our family started as farmers, and we have always been industrious. That is where and how we have been able to raise all our eight children.
4:44 However, now they are all married.

4:47 Even now we can still go to the fields to work (farm).  Everyday we go separately to our farms because we can no longer look after each of our children as they are now each on their own.

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5:00 Now at 76, which is my age, I can still walk to the fields to farm. 5:07 That includes to cultivate: clear out, prepare, plant, harvest, and bring home to finish whatever still need to be completed.
5:15 There is not much else (to do) for livelihood except to farm. 5:20 The truth is if not for that what else is there for us to do in order to survive.

5:24 Because all our children now live individually on their own, no one else among them live with us any longer.
5:32 It is just us now, and so once in a while we get really exhausted. 5:35

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 2:33 Am madday kono do kahay na a manwidwid am tayokah kono, am naliman dana o kaktej na.

II. The following is the second part or section on the cassette audio recording. However, it is the First Part of the video on You Tube.com. Origin Story of Ivatan.

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Video Time: 0:00 to 0:19 intelligible

0:20 …Ah, What is this? First is your name and then mention this place where you live, and then you can tell about your story. 0:32 Mention about them in the beginning. 0:34

Okay (yes).
0:36 “I am Andrea Gato. My hometown is here in Itbayat.  0:41
My short story/ What I am about to relate/tell is about Podalang and Raknan who were relatives. They were the only children of a couple.  They truly love each other. However, treated separately (differently) by their parents, foremost on their needs and their food. 1:04 The work of these two young men was in the building of ‘tataya’ (small ocean fishing boat). The farm where these brothers used to harvest and carry home their yam
became known as the ‘Hill of Podalan’.

1:17 When they leave for the farm or forest in search for and to chop down and haul the lumber that they needed their mother would have wrapped each of the brothers’ lunch and would hand to Raknan and Podalan each one’s own share.

1:30  During lunch time they would eat together and then they would notice that their lunch pack is not the same. Raknans food was more special. Podalans food also has yam (the main food item) but is very different.  1:47 Raknan, the younger brother would share Podalan because he always like it, who would comment, “This is (like) our Father and Mother’s lunch (again).”

1:58  The younger brother would then cry because he felt so bad of the way they were treated differently and of his tremendous pity for his brother.  Podalang wanted so much to eat the same. They were always very good of friends.
2:13
They have a place to tend to their domestic animals because they have goats. This place where their goats were kept was also where Raknan died, oh it was Podalan (who died). This same place where the goats all done even though his brother was already dead.

2:38
Raknan even offered water to the goat to try to tame it, that he might find out who has been there tending to the goat. He gathered plenty of fresh grass feed, tried to tame and then hug it, and bury it later because he will be late to feed whoever will be giving feed to their goat.
3:00 In a very short time came one that was loose and looked very contented. Then at that very moment he saw his brother hanging because the yam was all gone. He immediately hugged his brother so tight, and started asking where he has been.
3:17 “I am no longer on earth, because I have been gone/lost since yesterday.”

3:21 “Oh, you can come with me, and I also go wherever you go.” So he said, “You must come with me because where I walked was very difficult because it was different kind of path/road.”

3:32 “If you can pass or go through it, then I will also be able to,” says one brother. But Raknan he will not allow him to go with him, regardless.

3:39 Both cried as they know they were already separated. Raknan must have realized how big… maybe the road he was taking to cross must have been a lake or a huge water source. As he was leaving his brother because he no longer wanted to befriend him he found himself deeper into… smoke field road!
 
And so, where or what place may he be going or headed to next? 4:01

4:02sec
That is now the end, as that is all I can remember.
You must forgive me since it is short, because I can not relate (remember the rest) any more.

4:10sec
That is all I can remember.  Though they were relatives their separation was not proper.  And then he left him there.

4:23
He was not treated well by their parents.
4:27sec: End of this part…

Note: 1   These Part II has taken me much time as I tried my best to transcribe Mrs. Gatos’ diction and expressions. A few words were completely intelligible. 
2  The English translation has been done in way that the expressions, thoughts and meaning of Mrs Gato are kept in its true sense.
3  In the column above I have highlighted with green color the time lapse from 2:38 up to 3:58. This portion has been particularly difficult.

III. The following is the third part or section on the cassette audio recording. However, it is the Second Part of the video on youtube.com

Continue …

Part of Itbayat Origin Video
Video: Itbayat with Mrs Gato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hz2fQeWTTE

5:41
You cover with blanket, cry in place of others, where else will you find work/employment other than farming.
5:51 When one is paid to work their carabao (water buffalo) can be brought to do the hauling/pulling. 5:57

5:58
Everyday of work yet, there is always more to do. 6:03  Us in our family we can still do much like others who are raising their cattle at the (municipal) ranch. 6:10
And where we fench-in or coral our carabao (water buffalo) is all we have since we are much older now.

6:21 There is not much else that we can do. We just have to pity our selves because that is where we belong.

6:30 There are still other townmates who want to continue farming and tend to their own animals. 

No matter where we can, we still have to farm as that is where we belong. There are still people in our village or town who like to farm and raise their own domestic animals. For example those who have cattle at the ranch stay in Itbayat.