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Miyanda first, laid several of the leaf-dishes on the left-hand side 

 of the path; then, facing north, she summoned the god who lives 

 at the source of all the streams. 



"Malaki t'Olu k'Waig, I call you now, and ask you to speak to 

 the Tigbanua Balagan (Buso of the Rattan) and the Tigbanua Kayo 

 (Buso of the Wood), so that they will not hurt us. (rive them 

 these leaf-dishes with the betel, for themselves, because we want 

 no sickness to come to us while we make the Ginum ; and that 

 fearful sickness that is traveling round the world — do not send 

 it here where the Ginum is. If the sickness comes here, do not 

 let it go from this awas to where we live ; but make it stay shut 

 up in these kinudok, until you, Malaki t'Olu k'Waig, come to kill 

 it. When all the Diseases that go round the world and the old 

 bad Buso want to come to our house, make them stop here in the 

 hemp leaves. Malaki t'Olu k'Waig, you must keep us from getting 

 sick." 



Then Singan, designating certain of the leaf-dishes, said : "Here, 

 Tigbanua Balagan, these are for you;" and Suge, pointing to other 

 of the leaf-dishes, added : "Here, Tigbanua Kayo, these are for you ; 

 now do not come to our Ginum." 18T 



Then, turning to face the east, they placed on the ground the 

 remaining number of the ten leaf-dishes on the right-hand side of 

 the way, and addressed their petitions to the spirits of the dead, 

 in order to induce them to remain in Gimokudan and not to trouble 

 the living at the festival . 



"All of you, Gimokud, we give you these areca-nuts and these 

 betel-leaves; we ask you not to think at all about our Ginum. 

 Old Gimokud and new Gimokud, 1S8 these nine areca-nuts are for 

 you, one and all. We pray to you, too, all the Tagamaling and 

 all the Tagaruso. and we offer betel to all of you while we beg 

 you to keep away from this our Ginum." 



1 z 7 The same mental attitude, at the moment of laying down an offering, comes out 

 very nicely in the following prayer of a Toradja, recorded by the missionary Kruijt, in 

 Central Celebes: — "0 Gutter, die ihr auf dem Takalekadjo wohnt, ich kenne eure Anzahl 

 nicht, aber hier ist ein Sirihpriemchen (quid of betel) und ein Stuck Fuja, die ich euch 

 gebe; denn ihr seid gross, und wir sind geringe Leute. Wir reisen dort driiben hin; 

 macht unseren Weg gerade, gebt uns Sonnenschein, denn hier ist ein Sirihpriemchen, das 

 ich euch gebe, und meine Nachkommea werden euch das auch geben." P. and F. Sarasin 

 op. cit., vol. 1, p. 235. 1905. 



1 3 " Spirits of persons that have been long dead, and spirits of those recently deceased. 



