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began to exhibit the usual signs of possession, — gasping, groaning 

 and Laughing, — after which behavior she personated various dei- 

 ties by chanting and talking, as at the preceding visitation. The 

 time covered from the first sign of emotional disturbance in the 

 woman until the close of her oracles was very nearly two hours. 



The Tolus ka Talegit spoke first, a female deity who under- 

 stands weaving ami all the work of the women, and who is the 

 "All-knowing One of the medicine for the loom." She said, "The 

 Soiioia came from a long way off. She has conn 1 to see the Bagobo 

 people, and she wants to know all the Bagobo customs." 



Next, the Malaki t'Olu k'Waie gave an utterance in regard to 

 Malik, who, it came out, had broken his tabu, the oracle being 

 addressed to Malik's mother-in-law, Miyamla. The Malaki said: 

 "Malik does not respect me. because he has spoken to some man 

 during the eight days that he was forbidden, at manganito, to speak 

 to anybody. Now. 1 am not angry with him, hut he must give 

 me eight pieces of betel-leaf, or eight pieces of areca-nut." Then 

 Malik made answer to the Malaki: "We have no hotel, hut 1 will 

 give you. as an awas. '"' some little hells or a brass armlet or 

 some brass wire." 



The Malaki t'Olu k'Waig then spoke of the coming festival and 

 asked Oleng, "In how many days will the Ginum hey'* Then 

 Oleng answered: "We will have the Ginum when the moon is in 

 the west. Now- tell me what sickness this is in my body." In 

 reply, the Malaki said: "It is the woman who lives in the middle 

 "f the sky who makes you sick. The reason she brings you sick- 

 ness i> because you have left off the old Bagobo custom of killing 

 a man before you set up the bamboos and performed the patanan." 311 



At this < Menu' exclaimed: "Yes. we used to do that way. hot 

 now things are different; we cannot now do the same way we did 

 before." The Malaki answered insistently: "It was Bagobo custom 

 to kill somebody before the Ginum, and then to get the young 

 Bprays of areca-palm and the 6ara, and to carrj them into the 



house where the (iil)Utll was celel UM ted. Then Volt Would stand 



up the two bamboos in the bouse, and you would Bing the war- 

 song and chant the gindaya and perform the patanan over the 

 bamboos." 318 



**• A was is* here used in its primarj significance, as a gift to a god. 



" ' Recitation of exploits bj the old men, while t lu\ are holding the hamhoo. 



"•See p. 162, footn 



