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Amkidiil and Bagilat, who respectively make thunder and lightning. 

 These gods are the same throughout Il'ugao-land, notwithstanding the 

 fact that there are ten or twelve different dialects in the subprovince. 

 They are invoked by the entire body of feasters, in the usual high, 

 falsetto voice, in these or similar phrases : 



Oh come! Bahiwag of tlie Under World. Drink tlie rice wine. Take the 

 pig. Speed the harvesters of rice. Oh ! tliat'8 it ! Bagol ! Make tlie rice grains 

 as numerous as the sands. Miraculously increase the rice! Oh! Grant it! 

 Come thou! Make the rice heads hang over (\vith weight). Oh! that's it!-° 



The gods are called separately and in groups. Suddenly one of the 

 gods (Bahiwag "' always comes first) comes and possesses a feaster. 

 The latter springs up, seemingly without premeditation, seizes a dish of 

 rice wine, or, it may be, one of the big iuhiid jars, swings it with a 

 circular motion under the granary, at the same time hopping with the 

 characteristic Ifugao dance steps. The cries and calls of the feasters 

 and their white-heat fervor leave no doubt that here is a religion the 

 letter of which has not yet superseded its spirit. The one possessed 

 drinks and gives the others to drink, chanting the while: 



I come up from below, I, Bahiwag. I behold with favor that you are making 

 a rice feast. I dance, and I drink the rice wine. Drink, you participants ; because 

 I am giving you to drink. I taste the chicken, the pig, and the rice, as I have 

 been accustomed to do in times past. Thus I drink in dwelling and granary. 

 I desire it so year after year.^ 



The one possessed passes to the front of the granary where he executes 

 a little dance. Another feaster, of either sex, who has been possessed 

 by Tinukud, one of the other two spirits from the Under World, quickly 

 follows him, and together they dance and chant: 



We are the miraculous increase of the rice. We are the slowness of the rice 

 to be used up. We are harvest-knives and ties.-" 



-'Sai! Vmali Bahiioag ud Dalom. Anghayam di hinadayan. lalim di babui, 

 Ikwadim di monagamid. Oh-h-h hia! an Bagol! Pumantal di Biiigga. Buma- 

 ngali page. Eh-h-h Damu! Umalika. Lumatok di bintok. Oh-h-h hia! 



-' Bahiwag is chief of the gods of the Lower World. Dalogdogan is chief in 



the Sky World. [There seems to be some doubt as to whether these two gods 



are considered as leaders in any sense. Editor.] 



^^Sa-ai-ai-ai! LimadaiTgakhi Bahiwag ud Daul. Belibdiokak Koiatmgyo 

 • Came np I Bahiwag of Below. Object-of- Making-harvest- 



sight-mine feast-your 



Kadayaowak ya angbayak di binadayan. Tinulpangkayo haliknadan te impinpak 

 Gift-mine and drink-I the intoxicant. Drink-ye participants because 



matoldadaivak hi manok ya bahxdya page-yo ta impainghalc di kakohayari. 

 give-taste-I the chickens and pigs and rice-your has been habit-mine in the time-past. 



Mohammi tiiiulpang I halaoii ya kalumaga. Pudhok at hitu katdwotdvioii. 



Thus (?) drink (in) the divelling and (in the) granary like-I so yearly. 



-' Tangle-kami. G-ikiid-kaini. Gipam-kami, binuyu. 



