24.6 • BEYER AND BARTON. 



pajjioBS there iii the.Sky World, you will have someone to help j'ou get wood 

 and water .'I ;■.-.. ; . _ . . . . . 



This' calling on Aliguynn's soul never ceased. When .one old woman 

 grew hoarse, another took her place. As the procession came to the 

 houE8 it filed past Aligtijom and its leaders stopped and shouted words 

 to the "Same- effect as those that the old woman kept shouting. The 

 key-note of the whole ceremony was vengeance. It is true that the man 

 who had killed Aligiiyun was himself killed, but the people of a ran- 

 cheria regard themselves as being about the only really valuable people 

 in the world, and hold that three, four, or five men of another ranrher'ut 

 are not equal to one of theirs. 



THE CEBEirOXIES OX THE HILt. 



Toward noon the people told me ^* that they were going to perform 

 the ceremony which looked toward securing vengeance for Aligdyun's 

 death. Thej' went to a little hillock some distance from any house, 

 where a grass shelter had been built for protection from the piercing 

 rays of the noonday sun. Two pigs were provided there, one of which 

 was very small. Onlj' the old men were permitted to gather around 

 the pigs and the rice wine and the other appurtenances of the ceremony. 

 The ceremony began \>j a praj'er to the ancestors, followed by an invo- 

 cation to the various deities. The most interesting and principal one 

 of the ceremonies was the invocation of the celestial bodies who are 

 believed to be the deities of "War and Justice. Maxiahaut (the Deceiver) 

 a companion of the Sim God was first invoked. The priests cried: 



"Who-oo-oo, Manahaut! look down! Come down and drink the rice wine 

 and take the pig. Don't deceive us. Deceive om- enemies. Take them into the 

 remotest quarters of the Sky World ; lock them up there forever so that they 

 will not return. Vengeance for him who has gone before." Then an old priest 

 put his hands over his forehead and called: "Come down, Manahaut of the 

 Sky World." Manahaut came and possessed him causing him to call out: 

 "Sa-ai! Sa-ail I come down Manahaut: I drink the rice wine: I will deceive 

 your enemies, but I will not deceive you." ® 



'' It is somewhat strange, this idea of a soul's associating with the souls of 

 his enemies, whose death he has brought about. However, throughout the Ifugao's 

 religion we iind evidences that the soul is conceived as losing earthly affections 

 and enmities, but never earthly appetites and desires. 



'^ Xagakaran being the rancJieiia that speared and nearly killed my predecessor, 

 Mr. Wooden, I explained my presence to the people there by saying that the 

 soldier being an agent of our government was in a way a relative of mine, 

 and that I had come to assist in the last rites and ceremonies due him. The 

 explanation was a perfectly natural one to the people and they treated me 

 with the greatest courtesy and helped me to see whatever was to be seen. 



^ "Deceive" in the sense of "Cause to fall into danger or ambush, possessed by 

 the assiirance of safetv." 



