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XII, p. 270. "Miminsad, miminsad si Mansilatan Opod si Badla nga magadayao nang dumia Bailan, managunsayao, Bailan, managunliguit." This means: "Mansilatan has come down, has come down. Bailanas, dance; bailanas, turn ye round about."
This Rosell takes as "a confirmation of the most transcendental questions of our true religion," for in Mansilatan he finds the principal god and father of Balda, "who descended from the heavens where he dwells, in order to create the world.
The singing was done in a small inclosed room, the singer slipping in and out without my seeing her." The letters of Pedro Rosell written at Caraga in 1885 contain many references to the duties of the ballyan. In one account he records the following song which he says is sung by the priestesses when they invoke their gods Mansilatan and Badla. BLAIR and ROBERTSON, Vol. XLIII, pp. 217-21, and Vol.
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