90 BARTON. 



The people call the mahalun thus, drinking quantities of rice wine at 

 the same time: 



Come thou, Tayaban, the Messenger Deity, son of * * *. Notify the souls 

 of our ancestors to come. Notify the Deities of the Sky World, of the Under 

 World, of the East, of the West, to come. Notify our relatives and our compan- 

 ions. Summon Banuyuk of Panuyu. In order to speed the harvesters of the 

 rice; in order to multiply the bundles of the rice. There are rice wine and betel 

 nuts and betel leaves here.^' 



These and similar phrases are repeated over and over, the fervor of 

 the feasters growing the while. 



Suddenly some of the feasters, perhaps three or four, perhaps a dozen, 

 are seized upon and possessed by an equal number of mahalun. Through 

 these human agencies, the mahalun chant: 



We will call your relatives and companions and the spirits of the Under World, 

 of the Sky World, of the East, and of the West, because you are making a 

 harvest feast.°* 



So ends the second ceremony of the feast, the mahalun leaving the 

 bodies of those whom they have possessed and starting off on their errand 

 immediately. 



The earth gods and the shy gods. — These deites, of all those whom the 

 Ifugao calls to the harvest feast, are the only ones of sufficient dignity 

 to be termed gods. Their benevolence generally exceeds their malice, 

 which is not* true of the other deities ; and they control some of the 

 forces of nature. ^^ Baliiwag and his brothers, Dunuan and Tinukud 

 live in the TJnder World. They are thought to have a great deal to do 

 with the growth of plants, especially with germination. Dalogdogan, 

 Balitian, and Bayuhibis live in the Sky World and control the weather. 

 Balitian makes rain and Bayuhibis makes mist. They are brothers of 



^' Sa-a-a-i Vmalika Tayaban an Mahalun, nak * * *. Ealunum di 

 di amud ta umalida. Kalunum di hagol ud Kahunian, ud Dalom, ud Lagod, ud 

 Daya, ta umalida. Kalunum di mundomang a ya nunJialug. Pananduan hi Ba- 

 nuyuk ud Panuyu. Ta ikuadvn di monagamid di page; ta gumalutigid di udung i) 

 di page. Tehtu baya ya momma ya hapid. 



'*8a-a-a-i Komahim-hami mundomang," manhalung Idalom^ 



Say! Will-be-agents-of-calling-\ve relatives companions Residents-of-the 



Under- World 



Ikabunian Ilagod IpaAdan" ie mon-kolating-kayo. 



Residents-of-the Sky- World Residents-of-the Residents of the West because agents-of-perform- 

 East. ing-harvest-feast-you. 



« Mundomang : relatives, including relatives by blood and relatives by naarriage. 

 ' Udung, butt of the manojo of rice ; poetically, the whole manojo. 

 <= Mundomang : See note a. 



^ 7, as a prefix in the Kiangan dialect, denotes residents of ; as, for example, Ikiangan, 

 residents of Kiangan ; Idalom, residents of Dalom, the Under World. 

 ^ Paddan, a place to the west ; figurative term for West. 



'* Another quality of their godhood is that so far as -any Ifugao knows, they 

 have always existed. They were not born of parents. There is no story of their 

 creation so far as I have been able to ascertain. 



