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Updated: June 24, 2025
Their quids looked like the beads pinogalan, so they knew that they were brother and sister. The girl said to him, "Go inside of the big iron caldron so that the anitos who care for me will not eat you." So Kanag went inside of the big iron caldron.
The blood is mixed with rice; and this, together with nine coconut shells filled with basi, is placed beneath the house for the anitos to eat. While the spirits are busy with this repast, the mother, wrapped in a blanket, is secretly passed out a window and taken to another house. Then the men begin shouting, and at the same time slash right and left against the house-posts with their weapons.
This, of course, is just the kind of talk these people need, and the last some of them wish to hear. We enter the Mountain Province. Payawan. Kiangan, its position. Anitos. Speech of welcome by Ifugao chief. Detachment of native Constabulary. Visit of Ifugao chiefs to our quarters. Dancing.
They generally worshiped him, and made images of him in the said forms. These they kept in caves and private houses, where they offered them perfumes and odors, and food and fruit, calling them anitos. Others worshiped the sun and the moon, and made feasts and drunken revels at the conjunction of those bodies. Some worshiped a yellow-colored bird that dwells in their woods, called batala.
The patron saints recommended by the missionaries came to take the place of the ancient anitos representative of their past which they gave intervention in their idolatry in all the affairs of life.
The anitos were glad that she was back with them and they gave Kanag more power, so that when he should go to war he would always destroy his opponents. Agten-ngaeyan used to go and teach the women how to make dawak when anyone made balaua, so that she taught them very well how to make dawak. This is all.
When he reached her he saw it was his sister and he tried to take her away from the talagan, and she said to him, "I cannot get off from here, for the anitos who care for me told me to stay here until someone comes to make dawak with me." So they sent the old woman Alokotán to make dawak with her.
"You are crazy, Kanag; you have no sisters or brothers; you are the only child we have." Kanag said to them, "It is sure that I have a sister. I don't know why you did not know about her. The anitos took her when she was a little baby and they taught her how to make dawak, and she always makes dawak.
So Agten-ngaeyan told the anitos that a betel-nut which was covered with gold had come to take her to Aponitolau who was making Sayang, and they wished to see her. The anitos let her go, but they advised her to return. So she went.
The impression immediately formed was that of a scene of quiet peace and beauty, more or less rudely shocked the following day. As we drew nearer and nearer we were welcomed by arches of bamboo decorated with native flowers and plants, and guarded by life-size anitos of both sexes in puris naturalibus, cut out of the tree fern, but with no connotation whatever of indecency.
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