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Several times she tried to scale the house ladder, but was always repulsed, and each failure was greeted with jeers and ridicule. Gomogopos, who causes stomach troubles, came, and after dancing before the rice-mortar, demanded that a small pig be laid before the tangpap. Scarcely had the animal been deposited, when the spirit seized a head-axe and cut it in two at one blow.
The kalang, or spirit box, was then redecorated, food was dropped through the slits in the floor for visiting spirits, and finally the medium held the shield over the heads of the family, beat upon it with a head-axe, while in a loud voice she asked the spirits that, since the family was now celebrating tangpap, they would please make them well again.
Then he dipped the weapon in its blood and applied it to the stomach of each member of the family. "The pig is his pay, and now he takes away his kind of sickness." The second medium secured a live rooster, and using its wings as a brush, she took up the blood and the two halves of the pig, and put them in the tangpap.
Taltalabong: Following many ceremonies a small bamboo raft with arched covering is constructed. In it offerings are placed for spirits, who have been unable to attend the rite. Tangpap: Two types of structure appear under this name. When it is built as a part of the Tangpap ceremony, it is a small house with a slanting roof resting on four poles. The larger has two floors, the smaller only one.
The significance of this seems to be the same as in the Tangpap ceremony, where the life of the individual is symbolized by the rice, which is only partially taken away and is again returned. The next act is always carried out, but its meaning appears to be lost.
Kalangan. In Manabo and the villages of that vicinity a period of about seven years elapses between the building of tangpap and the celebration of Kalangan, but in most of the valley towns the latter ceremony follows Pala-an after two or three years. The ceremony is so similar to the Tangpap just described that only the barest outline will be given here.
She now appears to have joined the company of the natural spirits and to be immortal. At times, both she and her husband enter the bodies of the mediums. Agonán is the spirit who knows many dialects. He lives in Dingolowan. Gilen attends many ceremonies, and occupies an important place in Tangpap; yet little is known of him. Inginlaod are spirits who live in the west.
With much satisfaction, the medium assured us that the bead would be found in the hair of the man who broke the first ground for the tangpap, a boast which was made good the following morning. Adadog came next, and not finding the chicken which should have been placed on the mat for him, he broke out in a great fury and tried to seize a man in its place.
This great and final event is so much like the procedure which makes up the Tangpap ceremony that it seems necessary to give it only in skeleton form, adding explanations whenever they appear to be necessary. In the balaua is spread a mat covered with gifts for the spirits who are expected.
At one point in the Tangpap ceremony, a boy takes the sacrificial blood and rice from a large dish, and puts it in a number of smaller ones, then returns it again to the first; for, "when the spirits make a man sick, they take a part of his life.
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