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and with the characteristic ll'ugao ceremonial steps, proceed around the 

 granary, or if there be, as there usually is, more than one granary in the 

 inclosure, to proceed around all of them. (See PL III, fig. 2.) At 

 each of the four corners, the palipal is outstretched toward the sky and 

 sharply clapped. (See PL IV, fig. 1.) While this procession is passing 

 the feasters are fervently calling on the tayaban in high falsetto voices, 

 and telling them what is desired. They say : 



"Do not travel through oxir houses and our granaries and our villages. Fly 



over them. Do not frequent our fields nor our forests nor our roads. Fly 



around them. Harass our enemies. Do not diminish our rice. Increase it." And 

 so on. 



As the actors complete the circuit, a feaster with a cup of wine in his 

 hand executes a little dance before the pig and pours on it a little rice 

 wine, saying at the same time, "Get the pig, you spirits."''^ After the 

 wine has been poured on, he says : "Oh, that's it ! A libation has been 

 made the spirits l"*^ This circuit is performed four or six times. Usually 

 the first actor is relieved by others. At tlie completion of each circuit, 

 wine is poured on the pig. 



Coming of Buluhan, Monbuliihan. — After a recess Buluhan, nak Luk- 

 buban of Binuyuk,*' is called. Buluhan is conceived of as an enormous 

 creeping being, like a snake. He is called on in the usual phrases to 

 come and partalce of the feast and to increase the rice. Finally, he comes 

 and possesses a feaster. The one so possessed takes a piece of betel nut 

 in his mouth and a betel leaf. With these between his teeth, the leaf 

 projecting like a snake's forked tongue, he squinus and wriggles over 

 the rice that is stacked under the eaves of one side of the granary (for 

 no rice is put into the gi'anary until after the feast) in imitation of the 

 creeping of a snake. He chants : 



I have come from the East, I, Buluhan, son of Lukbuban, who live in Binuyuk. 

 I give (what you ask). I increase the rice. I drink the rice wine, as I have 

 been accustomed to in time past." 



The feaster wriggles to a bowl of bubud, rears his head and gazes at 

 the pig. At the same time, another feaster poiirs rice wine on the betel 

 nut from his moiith and drinks from the dish. 



" lalim di baioi dakayun hagol. 

 "0 hia! Nagilig an bagol. 

 " Binuyuk, a place in the East. 



" Himungdiialx '^ hi Biiluhatt. nak Lukbiiian Ibinuyuk,b kadayaowak ta huma- 

 iTgule page. Angbayak di binadayan ta impayinhuk di kakohayati. 



a Himungdu, ccme from the East. Humabang, come from the West. Lumadang, come 

 from the underworld. Nunudnud, come down from the Sky World. These words are 

 used only in religious ceremonies. 



■> Ibinuyuk. residents of Binuyuk. 



