Aponito handed her the robe, and she put it on. Then she told her star servants to fly up to heaven and fetch a basket. Soon they returned from the sky with a large, sparkling basket. It descended and came to a standstill in front of Aponito.

Gaygayoma invited him to join her and together they stepped into the basket, which was spacious enough to hold them both. The basket then soared up into the sky. Aponito was frightened almost to death, but Gaygayoma enjoyed sailing through the clouds. When they arrived at her home in the skies, Aponito met Gaygayoma’s mother, the moon, and her father, Bagbagak [Jupiter]. So Aponito and Gaygayoma lived happily together in the skies. After a time, Gaygayoma told Aponito to prick her between her last two fingers. He did so and out came a handsome baby boy. They named him Takyayen. The boy grew very fast and became strong.

Between heaven and earth

Now, Aponito also had a wife on earth. She was called Bolina. Gaygayoma knew this, but she wanted to keep Aponito all to herself. So, when he asked her if he could return to earth for a time, she could not hear of it. But he continued to entreat her, until at last she consented: “For one month, no longer, otherwise I will send my star servants to consume you.”

She called for her basket, and Aponito boarded it. The stars let him descend gently until he stood once more on firm ground. Bolina was overjoyed to see him, all the more so since she had given birth to a son, Kanag. So, Aponito now had two sons, one on earth and one in the sky.

Bolina told him how she had searched for him desperately but had only found his jacket in the sugarcane field. Now she understood how the sugarcane thieves had come in without breaking the strong fence.

One night, after they had been happy together for a month, the star servants of Gaygayoma arrived. They dispelled the darkness with their bright sparks. Aponito was frightened that he might be consumed by fire if he delayed, so he was soon ready for departure. The basket was waiting for him. After a last tender embrace with Bolina, he was quickly on his way up through the clouds and back to the sky.