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Updated: June 18, 2025
Tolagan decides to visit certain places in Pangasinan. He rides on a pinto pony and carries rice cakes as provisions. At the spring in Kaodanan he meets a beautiful maiden who warns him to return home, because the birds have given him a bad sign. He returns only to find that his wife has been stolen by the spirit Kaboniyan.
According to tradition, it was taught, together with the Sayang ceremony, by the spirit Kaboniyan to a woman Dayapan; and she, in turn, taught it to others, who were then able to cure sickness. As there was considerable variation in each Dawak witnessed by the writer, the complete ceremony is given for the village of Ba-ak, together with striking variations from other towns.
The spirits of Dadaya notice that their feather headdresses have lost their lustre. They place them on the house of some mortals, who at once become ill. The spirit Kaboniyan instructs them to make the Pala-an ceremony. They obey, the feathers regain their brightness and the people recover. The father who is starting for a head-dance agrees to meet his wife and baby at sun down.
You must remain on the low ground by the river, and I will go to the hill above." So the following day Sayen went to the low ground by the river. He had not waited long before he heard a great sound like a storm, and he knew that Kaboniyan was coming. He looked up, and there stood the great warrior, poising his spear which was as large as a big tree.
"How wonderful are the people who live in Kadalayapan and Kaodanan, for they are relatives of Kaboniyan and they have power," said the women who were dipping water from the well. "You people who are dipping water, where is the trail which leads to the house of Algaba of Dagála?" they said. "Follow the head poles; they are along the road to his house," said the women who were dipping water.
In the first times Kaboniyan told a sick man to go to the mango tree at the edge of the village. "Take a feather for your hair, a clay dish with oil, a headaxe, a spear, and a small jar of basi, when you go to the tree." He did as he was bidden, and when he reached the tree the pináing were there. "Ala! now kill a small pig and offer its blood mixed with rice.
Dayapan wept bitterly at this and waited a long time for Kaboniyan, and when at last he came, he said: "If the dog had not killed the cock, no person would die when you make this ceremony; but this is a sign, and now some will die and some will get well."
Then they heard a voice speaking words which they understood, but they could see no man. The words it spoke were: "You secure a pig, a sow without young, and take its blood, so that you may catch the jar which your dog pursued." They obeyed and went to secure the blood. The dog again brought to bay the jar which belonged to Kaboniyan.
"How terrible are the people who are like Kaboniyan for they are so different from us," said the other people who went to attend balaua with them. Not long after, when all the people had finished dancing and the balaua was over, the people went home and Iwaginan was engaged to Linongan. Aponibolinayen said, "We do not wish that our daughter be married yet," but Awig agreed.
It is better that you go to the home of your parents-in-law, and you go and prepare the things needed in Ibal ," said Kaboniyan. After that the mother and child came out of the ground. After that they got well because they came up the mother and the baby. The spirits are going. They arrive and begin their work, and if the people do not make Sangásang many will die.
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