THE EVILDOER'S DEATH
You can't totally get away with it.
That seems to be the message of this bit of wisdom from the elders.
The inner ugliness of an evil person will somehow manifest itself outwardly in the body of that evil person when he or she dies.
Thus, even if an evil person who did much harm in life got away with it, the punishment will come when the dead body of the evil person becomes so ugly that the person suffers an ignoble death.
Here's how one older lady explained it :
I taotao gi durånten lina'lå'-ña yanggen mampos bula tinailaye bidå-ña,
(The person who during his life if he has done a great deal of evil,)
tåt komo mampos båba i pachot-ña,
(such as having a very bad mouth,)
sesso de muna' mumu taotao,
(who stirs up fights between people,)
gi oran finatai-ña siempre u guaha ma susede.
(at the hour of his death something surely will happen.)
Siña ha' ma baba i pachot-ña, ma laknos i hila'-ña
(It's possible his mouth will open, his tongue come out)
ya ti siña ma na' halom.
(and it can't be put back in.)
Horror! But this is the punishment.
Even though evil people often get away with it in this life, still, at death, you can't get away with it completely.
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