94 • BARTON. 



After the foregoing ceremony, and in preparation for the succeeding 

 one, an old man anoints the bamboo shakers, saying: 



I anoint the palipal in order to do the same to the rice; to make soft and 

 tough the ric© (straw) in the fields;^' to speed the harvesters; to multiply the 

 bundles of rice in the fields in order that the harvest may be great; in order 

 that the rice heads may hang down;"" so that the harvest will be heavy; in order 

 that the empty space in the granary may be filled with plenty.'" 



The iayaban. Monligid. (Procession with shakers.) — The iayaban 

 are predatory spirits almost without redeeming qualities. They are 

 able, it is said, to increase the rice, "because they are divinities;" but 

 this is through analogy with the place-spirits, and the gods of the Sky 

 and Under Worlds. As a matter of faet, not much is expected of them 

 except neutrality. If this nuetrality is not secured, they steal "the life 

 of the rice;" they decrease it after it is stored in the granary; they fly 

 in the night, hunting linauwa, souls that have wandered off in dreams f 

 they kill the foetuses of pregnant women. Tayalian hi Apolili, is the 

 genius of landslides. The tayaban that are called to the rice feast are 

 Tayaban, nak Lukbuban; Oltagon, his sister; Tayaban, nak Alingdayu; 

 Tayaban, nak Binongbong ; Indagan, his sister ; Tayaban, nak Mongahid ; 

 Tayaban Kawangwangan;''^ Tayaban, nak Humidhid; Tayaban, nak 

 Tugadan; Tayaban, nak Manguli; Tayaban, hi Duyug;"'' Tayaban, nak 

 Dinkom; Tayaban, nak Balud; Tayaban Inudoman. 



The tayaban are summoned orally in much the same manner as the 

 spirits in the two foregoing ceremonies. They are asked to increase 

 the rice, multiply the grains and bundles and make them heavy, "In 

 the hope," said an old man, "that they will hear what the other spirits 

 do, and do likewise through shame." When the tayaban come, they take 

 possession of the feasters, by twos, usually a man and a woman, the man 

 first. The tayaban then cause them to take palipal,'^° bamboo clappers, 



^' So that it will not fall down, and the grain be scattered and lost. 



'° From weight. 



^' Ilana-ak hi palipal ta ulculan di page; humatyumut ya pomatlag indalungene ; 

 ta ikwadin di monagamid; ta gii-malutigid udung nan indalungene hi hananu, ta 

 dalcol ni dnian; himatuk di Mntok ta dakol di anian, ta, inhigup natdaiTgan di 

 hinumpkal. 



''They carry away and imprison the Unautca, thus causing the person whose 

 linauwa was stolen to languish and die. The body without a linauwa is like a 

 palm tree without a bud. 



^' Kawangumngan : of the streams. Wangicang, a stream; ka, a prefix of ab- 

 straction and denoting extension. 



^ Tayaban hi Duyug. Tayaban of the ialiti tree. 



*" Mr. H. Otley Beyer, of the division of ethnology, Bureau of Science, tells 

 me that in Banaue, if a feaster breaks a palipal, he must make an expensive 

 feast to ward oflf misfortune, and is tabooed from taking part in any other harvest 

 feast until the next year. This is probably the case in Kiangan also. 



