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The Ipogau 2 are making Sayang. 3 "Why do not those Ipogau who 

 are making Sayang start the Valaua 4 correctly?" said the spirits above. 

 Those anitos 6 who are married, who are Kadaklan and AgEmEm, 6 say, 

 "It is better that you carry the pig." Tnen truly they carried the pig 

 up the river, those two Ipogau who are married. "Ala! you walk and 

 walk until you arrive at Sayau, for a person who lives there is making 

 Sayang," said the spirits. After that they arrived, those who are 

 married who carried the pig, at the place of the man who made Sayang. 

 "Where are you going?" asked the man of Sayau of those who carried 

 the pig. "We came to see how you make Sayang, for we have not yet 

 learned how to make Sayang correctly," said those who are married. 

 "Ala! watch what I am doing and imitate." They watched what 

 he did when he made Sayang, and he did everything. He made balag, 

 sagoyab, aligang, they made also tangpap, they made adagang, balabago, 

 and what is needed for al-lot? After that, "You go home, and when you 

 make Sayang you do as I did," said the man from Sayau. They went 

 home truly, those Ipogau, and they imitated the man who made Sayang 

 in Sayau; then those who are married — Kadaklan and AgEmEm — 

 caused the spirits to come whom they called, those who made dlam 

 when they built balaua. (Here the medium names the spirits which 

 cause sickness.) 



Now you get better, you who build balaua. 



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 " Those who knew to make dawak, went to make dawak, but they did 

 not prepare the pig correctly. Not long after Kabonlyan, 9 above, was 



1 This diam is recited by the medium when the spirit house known as balaua 

 is built. See also page 12. 



* Spirit name for Tinguian. 



1 The greatest of Tinguian ceremonies. 



4 A large house built for the spirits during the Sayang ceremony. 



* Spirits. 



8 Kadaklan is the most powerful of the spirits. AgEmEm is his wife. 



7 The names of small buildings or shrines elected for various spirits. 



8 Chanted by the medium while making offerings in the Dawak ceremony which 

 is made for the cure of minor illnesses, such as fever, etc. 



9 A powerful spirit. 



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