HARVEST FEAST OF THE KIANGAN IFUGAO. <)? 



. Rice wiml, w:ivc tlic rico in tlu' liohls, l)iit return its soul (life?). Make 

 healthy its soul. Do not fell the liouses and granaries. Do not summon the 

 rains because we are harvesting. Here, you have rice wine and pig, etc." 



A feflster i.^ possessed. lie takes a basket containing betel nuts and 

 betel leaves, malt, and a coconut shell containing rice wine, and with 

 a palipal in hand proceeds swiftly '^- about the granary, with the Ifugao 

 ceremonial steps, rattling the liamboo clapper vigorously "'" at the four 

 corners of the granaries and chanting as he goes : 



We are the slowness of rice to be used up. We are the miraculous increase 

 of the rice. We are the life of the rice. We are the harvest knives. 



This procession is repeated four times, once for each piloh. At the 

 termination of each circuit, rice wine is poured on the pig, the person 

 pouring it crying : "A libation has been made tinto all you puoh."^* 

 Usually the circuit is performed by a different actor each time. (See 

 PI. IV, fig. 2.) 



The bahayauan. Monbakayauan. — The bakayauan are powerful deities 

 that go armed with spears. They are hunting spirits. Some of them 

 have dogs. They are offered sacrifices by hunters, and go to the chase 

 with them. Most of them live in the Sky World, some in the Under 

 World, and others have special places in the East.'"'^ 



The feasters begin calling bakayauan to the feast. Suddenly one of 

 their number springs up, seizes a spear ^^ from those stuck in the ground 



°' Pumpiiok hi page, inumyum di page, mu ibangad di linauwa-na. Adikayo 

 iiwan di halaon ya kalumaga. Adikayo ayagan di udan te monaki-kami. Tehtu 

 hinahudan ya baitii, etc. 



°- Note the connection in the Ifugao's mind between the passage of the wind 

 over the rice and its health and growth. 



°^Note that the manner in which this procession is made is sj'mbolic of a 

 strong wind. 



'■' yagilig dakayun puok, amin. 



" These deities are : Bakayauan, nak Panuya, Kabunian ; Bakaj'auan, nak 

 Balitian, Kabunian; Bakayauan hi Tayaban, Kabunian; Bakayauan. nak Hol- 

 dayan, Kabunian; Bakayauan, nak Mangamalig, Kabunian; Bakayauan, nak 

 Balitok, Itapugan ; Bakayauan, nak Lauan, Dukligan ; Bakayauan, nak Dinlugan 

 ud Dulom ; Bakayauan, nak Domagaan, Kabunian ; Bakayauan, nak Lakmayan, 

 Kabimjan ; Bakayauan, nak Buluhan, Kabunian ; Bakayauan, nak Amgumagub, 

 Kabunian. 



°° The spear must be a bright handsome one, of the class called holohog, or 

 of that termed gayang. This latter is called by Jenks the "anito spear." At 

 one feast I witnessed in a small group of houses no handsome spear of either 

 of these two classes could be found. The procession about the granary was 

 omitted. 



