Thousands of years ago, so some of our people say, there came to our land a monstrously gigantic couple who finally settled in Iloccos region.   Añgalo and Añagararab were their names and they came from land to the south which was inhabited by giants.   This two were taller than our highest mountains.   So enormous were they that when they walked they shook the earth and even they spoke in their natural tones, their voices reverberated like thunder.

  The Philippines in ancient times, the old people tell us, was not broken up into thousands of islands as now.   At the time Añgalo and Añagararab came, what is the Philippines today was one great island, to  the south of which, in the Sulu sea, these two giants found some of the biggest and most lustrous pearls in the world.   After gathering this treasure, they stepped on the Philippine soil and began to explore the island northward.  But a dispute arose between them  as to the division of the pearls, and this dispute ended in a fight.   The stamping of their big feet rocked the whole great island and the frequent falls of the heavy bodies cracked the land and sent large pieces of it flying in different directions.  The scene of the fight was in about the center, in the locality now known as the Bisayas, and that is why this region is broken up into smaller island fragments than the rest of the Archipelago.

  After settling in Ilocos, the giant couple reared a number of children.  One afternoon, these giant babes were taking a bath in the China Sea, which was, even then, full of dangerous currents.  The children of Añgalo and Añagararab were not good swimmers and suddenly finding themselves being swept out to sea, they cried to their father for help. Añgalo was taking a nap, but awoke.  He rushed to the shore, and saw his two sons were already out of his reach.  Quickly he removed his long baag or G-string, and dipped the cloth into the sea.  It sucked up the water like a sponge and so it was that the giant saved his children.   Afterwards, he wrung his baag out again and the sea returned to its former level.

At first there was no Banaoang Gap in Ilocos Sur.  Añgalo is responsible for that opening in the Cordillera.  He was restless even in his sleep, and, one night, when sleeping on the mountain tops of northern Luzon, he unintentionally kicked out a section of the range which then became the way out for the torrential Abra River.  The Gap was too wide and too deep for his children to wade across, but Añgalo used merely to extent his forefinger and let his tots walk over on that as if it were a bridge.

Other marks of Añgalo’s are still to be seen in spite of the passage of many centuries.  One morning Añgalo was scouring the whole island of Luzon looking for a lost sow.  He was in Pangasinan when he thought he saw the lost hog in Cagayan near Cape Engaño.  He took three hasty strides, and the mountains crumbled under his steps.  The mountain of Pangasinan and Cagayan bear the imprint of his right foot, while the print of his right may still be seen east of the Banaoang Gap.  What he had taken to be his lost animal was, however, nothing but a big mound of black mud.  Hence, people say, Cape Engaño from engañado, deceived.