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    (1) Agyu and his relatives flee their homeland due to conflict with their Muslim rulers and are guided by a spirit to overcome obstacles and find immortality. Mungan is the first to become immortal and tells the clan to await a magical flying boat to take them to paradise. (2) When the flying boat arrives, Agyu and his relatives are showered with oils of immortality and blessed with eternal life in Nalandangan, an earthly paradise, as a reward for their faith. (3) Baybayan, Agyu's son, is excluded from Nalandangan due to past actions and is tasked with circling the world seven times to convert people

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    (1) Agyu and his relatives flee their homeland due to conflict with their Muslim rulers and are guided by a spirit to overcome obstacles and find immortality. Mungan is the first to become immortal and tells the clan to await a magical flying boat to take them to paradise. (2) When the flying boat arrives, Agyu and his relatives are showered with oils of immortality and blessed with eternal life in Nalandangan, an earthly paradise, as a reward for their faith. (3) Baybayan, Agyu's son, is excluded from Nalandangan due to past actions and is tasked with circling the world seven times to convert people

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    (1) Agyu and his relatives flee their homeland due to conflict with their Muslim rulers and are guided by a spirit to overcome obstacles and find immortality. Mungan is the first to become immortal and tells the clan to await a magical flying boat to take them to paradise. (2) When the flying boat arrives, Agyu and his relatives are showered with oils of immortality and blessed with eternal life in Nalandangan, an earthly paradise, as a reward for their faith. (3) Baybayan, Agyu's son, is excluded from Nalandangan due to past actions and is tasked with circling the world seven times to convert people

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    (1) Agyu and his relatives flee their homeland due to conflict with their Muslim rulers and are guided by a spirit to overcome obstacles and find immortality. Mungan is the first to become immortal and tells the clan to await a magical flying boat to take them to paradise. (2) When the flying boat arrives, Agyu and his relatives are showered with oils of immortality and blessed with eternal life in Nalandangan, an earthly paradise, as a reward for their faith. (3) Baybayan, Agyu's son, is excluded from Nalandangan due to past actions and is tasked with circling the world seven times to convert people

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    Ulahingan

    The Ulahingan is the epic of the Livuw


    (1) Agyu and his relatives are the characters in Ulahingan. A conflict
    develops between them and their rulers, usually Muslims, because of a
    forced tribute and the killing of the ruler. They flee, guided by a diwata
    or spirit, who promises them immortality after they have overcome
    various obstacles. They leave behind Mungan, the wife of Banlak who is
    Agyu’s brother, because she has leprosy. Mungan, however, is the first
    among them to become immortal. It is she who tells Agyu and the clan
    to go to Aruman to await the sarimbar/salsimbar or magical flying boat
    that will take them to paradise.
    (2) When the appointed day comes, Agyu and his relatives ascend to
    heaven. A diwata showers them with the oil of immortality and gives
    them the betel nut of immortality to chew. He blesses them, but tells
    them that the Midlimbag, the Highest God, sends them to live in
    Nalandangan, an earthly paradise, and not in heaven. That is their
    reward for enduring and having confidence in the Midlimbag.
    (3) However, Baybayan, Agyu’s son, does not join them in Nalandangan.
    Three incidents in the past explain his exclusion. He did partake of a
    boar which Agyu and his men had killed with the help of a meresen
    etew, a heavenly messenger. His withdrawal from the feast signaled
    that he would not join them on their trip to paradise. Consequently, he
    is tasked to go around the world seven times to gather converts before
    he can enter paradise. A similar incident happened in Kituyed, where
    Baybayan was absent in the distribution of a dead fish. Agyu again
    decrees that Baybayan should circle the world and win converts before
    he can join them in heaven. Before Baybayan can start on his journey,
    however, Agyu’s grandfather tells him to dance the sa-ut, a circular war
    dance. Instead of circling three times as dictated by tradition, Baybayan
    circles seven times. The grandfather then declares that Baybayan must
    circle the world seven times.
    (4) In his wanderings, Baybayan encounters many adventures,
    converting many peoples, including Chinese and Muslims. He and his
    followers would stop journeying every seven days. In one episode, his
    followers run out of food and drink. They stop by a tree laden with fruit.
    Baybayan performs the first ulahing, and the fruit falls from the tree
    and turns into linepet, leaf wrappings of rice. A bowl of viand appears
    beside each linepet. Baybayan and his followers feast on food, which do
    not run out. After more wanderings, they are finally lifted to heaven in
    the salimbar, where the highest katulusan, a divinity, makes them
    immortal. Midlimbag gives them powers of a different nature than
    those he has given Agyu, and provides them with another paradise to
    stay in. He exhorts Baybayan to inspire mortals to perform the ulahing
    so that they may not forget Agyu.

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