BENEDICT, BAGOBO CEREMONIAL, MAGIC AND MYTH 499 



There was some further talk between Oleng and the anito about 

 the old customs and the present ones that I was not able to record. 



After this, the All-knowing One of the Bamboos made his demands : 

 "If you do not hasten the celebration of Ginum, you will soon be 

 attacked by sickness, because I will send the sickness. I will send 

 the sickness if you do not make patanan quickly, just as is the 

 custom of the Bagobo every year when they have the Ginum." 

 "But you must keep us from sickness;" returned Oleng; "we want 

 you to take all the diseases to the home of the Malaki t'Olu k'Waig, 

 so that he may kill them." 



Next spoke the Tolus ka Balekat, who is god of the high altar 

 and to whom much of the ceremonial of Ginum is addressed, saying: 

 "In how many days will the Ginum be given? If you do not get 

 ready quickly for the Ginum, the Tagaruso will come, or the 

 Balinsugu." 319 



Then, changing the topic, the Tolus made a statement touching 

 the offerings due to himself, as follows: "The Seiiora came from a 

 long distance, and she wants to buy all the Bagobo things so that 

 she may have everything that the Bagobo manufacture. Now, I 

 do not want to have the Bagobo things sold, for I wish the spirit 

 of the objects to pass into my pangolan] 320 therefore hold back 

 your possessions, and sell only a few things to the Seiiora, just so 

 that she will not be offended." To this, Miyanda assented with a 

 single word, "Sadunggo," (All right, certainly). 



Then the anito of the "Disease that goes round the world" said: 



"What strange woman is here?" Miyanda replied: "She is a 

 bia 321 who lives in the root of the sky." Then the Disease asked: 



"Can I make the Bia sick?" "Oh no!" rejoined the old woman, 

 "you cannot make her sick, because she is not of our blood." 



The last of the anito who spoke that night was Abog, a god 

 who controls success in the hunt. Malik put this question to Abog: 

 "Will you give us a pig to-morrow, if Iluk goes to hunt?" "Yes," 

 replied Abog, "provided you make me a gift of some arrows with 

 good steel points." 



On the night of August 8, Miyanda summoned the Malaki t'Olu 

 k'Waig, as soon as the lights had been put out — perhaps between 



* ' 9 Demons that bring the spirit of unrest and tumult to a festival. See pp. 2'J, 30 — 37, 107. 



320 A bracelet of solid shell, made from a cross-section. 



321 Bia means "lady." Cf. Jour. Am. Folk-lore, vol. 26, pp. 14, 30, 36. 1913. 



