Kankanay Ceremonies: (American Archaeology and Ethnology) — John Shaqi
Kankanay Ceremonies: (American Archaeology and Ethnology)Moss, C. R. (Claude Russell)
Religion
Kankanay Ceremonies: (American Archaeology and Ethnology)
Moss, C. R. (Claude Russell)
Igorot (Philippine people); Kankanay language -- Texts; Rites and ceremonies -- Philippines
Amuida ut, kano, ingilada di mantumtumog san dua ay kaman buui
ay bato ay kalimlimosan si danom. Amugyapda, kano, ay amui ut
impaononada san asoda. Ilanda ut, kano, nabasil. Ungayan omonodda
si asoda. Mabas ilda ut diay nayapapa ut tagui, yan wada san
adado ay buui ay nanataatang.
Dumatang pay yan kabala san si asauwa'n agou, ut kinwanina,
"Sinoi kayo?" "Unmali kami ta kami nanpaanap tan adi mananak si
asauwami yan mo manawas da mansakitda." "Sangupkayo sian daounmi
tan mo dumatung si agou malpa kayo." Ungayan singupda sin daoun
di buui di agou.
Dumatung pay, kano, si agou ut inbaga un, "Mo waday inmali
ay ipugau ud kugau?" "Au, ay panada si daon di buui. Unda
kanon manpaanap tan adi mananakda asauwada ya mansakitda mo
manowasda." Ungayan ay agou inbgana Apinan un Bintauan, "Sinoi
gapona si inmalianyo?" "Inmali kami tan un kami manpaanap." Ungayan
kinwanina agou, "Sumaa kayo ut yaanyo di pasang, ut maganak kayo."
Sumaada Apinan un Bintauan ut siay inyatda ut nanganakda, ya adi
nansakit si asauwada mo manawasda.
There were Bintauan and Apinan. They were brothers. They did not
have children, and when their wives had their menses, they were
sick in the abdomen.
They went then to get some one to make the divination
ceremony. They found a stone house; a large tall man with green
eyebrows came out of it. Then Bintauan and Apinan asked him to make
the divination ceremony so that they could learn what troubled
their wives. Then he said, "Go to the Sun and Moon because they
know the divination ceremony."
Then Bintauan and Apinan went away. They arrived then at the
meeting place of the earth and the sky. There was a large house. A
red-eyed man with green eyebrows came out of it. "For what reason
did you come?" "We came to cause the divination ceremony to be
made, because when our wives have their menses they get sick and do
not have children." "I do not know the divination ceremony; go to
the Sun and the Moon, because they know the divination ceremony."
They went on and saw two stones as large as a house striking each
other, where the water empties. They were afraid to go farther,
but sent their dog ahead. They saw he was on the other side. Then
they followed their dog. They arrived on the other side, where
there were many houses joined together.
They arrived then, and the wife of the Sun came out and said,
"Who are you?" "We came to have the divination ceremony made,
because our wives do not have children and when they have their
menses they are sick." "Come under the house because when the
Sun arrives he will wilt you." Then they went under the house of
the Sun.
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