Summary of Leoncio P. Deriada's Ati-Atihan

The Ati-Atihan is made by Leoncio P. Deriada and the main characters are Sibukaw and Kainyaman. The sun had not yet risen,but Sibukaw felt warm.He turned to his wife behind him.Kainyaman looked at her husband with anticipation her face damp with sweat.Sibukaw did not say anything.Instead,he walked faster. They had been walking since the second cock crow.In their home at the foot of the mountain,the whole world was awake before the sun.This time of the year,the mornings were unusually cold,and before they left for this morning`s trip,Kainyaman had to wear a dress under her patadiong.Now,both of them felt warm.The long walk had quickened their pulses and their blood and,presently,they felt the need to jump into a pond or lake a river. Sibukaw and Kainyaman were newly married.They lived at the foot of the mountain far into the hinterland where no roads ever brought to their Ati tribe the sound of trucks and the smell of gasoline.Most of the older men had been there only twice.The first was when he was a boy of ten kaingan seaseons.The second was only a month ago,the week before he took Kainyaman as his wife. Kainyaman had never been to town.Now they were on their way to the national road where they would wait for a bus from the north.They were barefooted.Suddenly,the sun rose and east blossomed into a brighter riot of colors.The fog slowly dissolved in the grass and the trees and the hills. Sibukaw stripped and jumped into the brook.The pleasant coolness of the water blended with the heat of his body and he felt rested.Kainyaman stood on the bank of the brook.Sibukaw watched her undress.Now completely naked,her body shone early in the morning.Sibukaw put on again his green shirt and pair of stained khaki pants.Kainyaman put on his clothes fast. They sat on a big stone beside the brook.Kainyaman opened a little banban basket that contained boiled camote and piece of roated dried monkey meat.They