﻿ix, d, g Robertson: The Igorots of Lepanto 483 



and call them anito; and their manner of praying or making offering 

 is somewhat like that of the people in ancient time" the only difference 

 being that in ancient times when they made prayers or offerings they 

 killed a sheep" for the ceremony; but now the ceremony that they 

 observe whenever they make any offering to God (Cabunian) is the 

 killing of a hog or a chicken." 



8, 99], speaking of the Ifugaos, says that Cabunian is the layer of 

 the sky world "immediately above the Earth World, and it is the blue-stone 

 underfacing of this layer that we call the 'sky.' " Fray Benito Herosa, 

 0. S. A. [see Perez, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1904), 3, 243] identifies 

 Cabunian with the sun. 



"Of the religion of the Igorots, Alonso Martin Quirante (Blair and 

 Robertson, ut supra, 20, 273, 274) says: "The Yglotes are an idolatrous 

 race. They say that their god is the sky, whom they call Cabunian; 

 and they offer and sacrifice to him, in their banquets and feasts, swine 

 and carabaos, but under no consideration cows or bulls. The method 

 of sacrifice practiced by them is [as follows] : Having tied all the 

 animals not prohibited about the house of the sacrifice, after the ceremony 

 an old man or old woman, having placed on the ground a painted cloth 

 that resembles a surplice, and which they call salili, they proceed to 

 kill the animals, and make a great feast. They keep that up for two 

 or three days until they have finished eating what they have, when 

 their feast or magunito also finishes. He who keeps up such entertain- 

 ment longest, and kills most of the said animals is most respected." See 

 also, Perez, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1904), 3, 137, 138, and Jenks, ibid. 

 (1905), 1, 196-215. 



42 Thus in the manuscript, but probably a dog is meant, as no sheep 

 are found in Mountain Province, except those brought in from outside, 

 such as those now owned by the Jesuits at Baguio. 



43 See the description of a sacrifice witnessed among the Visayans 

 in 1521 by Antonio Pigafetta, who accompanied Magellan, in Robertson, 

 Magellan's journey around the world. Cleveland (1906), 163-167. See 

 also, Blair and Robertson, ut supra: 3, 163-165 (Conquest of Luzon, 

 1572) ; 3, 198, 199 (Relation of the Western Islands called Filipinas, 

 1573) ; 5, 131-133, 163, 173-175 (Loarca's Relation, ca. 1580) ; 7, 185, 

 190, 191 (Plasencia, Customs of the Tagalogs, 1589); 12, 265-272, 302, 

 304 (Chirino, Relation, 1604); 13, 59, 72, 81; 21, 137, 138; 29, 284-286, 

 293, 294 (Bobadilla's Relation, 1640); 30, 190-192, 288, 289; 31, 145, 

 146, 155; 32, 55, 56, 248; 33, 167-171; 34, 319; 38, 219, 221, 236, 

 239; 40, 70-89 (Colin, Labor evangelica, 1663) ; 40, 167 (Combes, Historia, 

 1667); 40, 221, 223; 40, 335-339 (San Antonio, Chronicas, 1738-44); 

 43, 105 (Ortiz, Practico del ministerio, ca. 1742) ; 43, 124, 125 (Martinez 

 de Zuiiiga, Historia, 1803) ; 47, 301, 302 (Perez, Relation of Zambales, 

 1680) ; 48, 107, 125, 129, 132. See also, Perez, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. 

 (1904), 3, 242, 243. Mr. Luther Parker, of the Bureau of Education, 

 Manila, has seen the sacrifices still performed by the half-wild mountain 

 people of Panay. They resemble closely the sacrifice described by Pigafetta. 

 The manuscript above cited, Noticia aprocsimada, gives an account of 

 sacrifices among the Igorots, especially of that called jalujalu, which is 

 defined as the sacrifice of pigs. 



