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
The blanket is put into the grave, after which the people go to the
house of the sick person. They tie the animal to be killed, and give
the rope to the mambunong. He then prays as follows, while holding
the rope:
Ud niman nay yaanakka si noang, ut masaoan di sakitna.
Now I am giving you a carabao, and may the sickness be cured.
The carabao is then killed and cooked. Just before the people eat,
the mambunong says:
Amud, omalika ta mangangtaka.
Soul of the dead relative, come and eat with us.
After the people have eaten, the mambunong shakes the two blankets to
be used by the dancers, in order that he may shake out the spirits
of the blankets for the dead relative. While doing this he says
the following:
Bomaknangkami, onmandokami, ta waday kadayyawanmo.
May we be rich, may we live long, so that there is your
remembrance.
The people then spend the rest of the day dancing and drinking tapuy.
The ceremony is entirely different from the kiad of the Nabaloi. It
corresponds in purpose and occasion to the Nabaloi tabwak.
KOSDE
Kosde, called pakde in some barrios, is celebrated in all Benguet
Kankanay towns. The purpose of the ceremony is to cause agricultural
products to grow well, and it is always celebrated some time between
rice planting and rice harvesting, generally soon after the planting
has been finished.
The night before the ceremony begins, every fire in the barrio is
extinguished, and the next morning new fire is produced by means
of friction.
Each household must furnish a hog or chicken and a jar of tapuy. The
mambunong holds a separate ceremony at each house, and prays to the
gods and spirits asking that the yield may be sufficient for the
people and that there may be enough surplus with which to celebrate
many ceremonies.
After the ceremony has been held at each house, the meat and tapuy are
taken to one place. The men proceed to drink the tapuy, but the meat
is divided among the people according to the number in each family. The
part which can not be eaten is hung above the fire and dried.
This ceremony corresponds to the Nabaloi kosday; to the pakde or
begnas of the Lepanto Kankanay; and, in a general way, to the honga
of the Ifugao, and the chaka of the Bontoc.
BUGID
The ceremony called bugid is held in the Benguet Kankanay towns when
the water for irrigation is not sufficient.
A jar of tapuy and some dried meat are taken to the field for
sacrifice, and the owner of the field prays to the spirits of suicides
asking them not to try to drink from the irrigation ditches.
The purpose of the ceremony corresponds to the tawal ni payu of
the Nabaloi, and to the bakid as celebrated in some of the Lepanto
Kankanay towns.
PUNGAU
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