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The spirit Maganawan sends his servants to secure the blood of a rooster mixed with rice. People see many snakes and birds near gate of town. They make the ceremony Sangasang and offer blood and rice. The servants of Maganawan carry the offering to him. He takes it in his mouth and spits it out, and in the same way the sickness is removed from the mortals.
"Go! command to make Sangásang" said the married ones. "We shall wait the blood of the rooster mixed with rice, because they remember to command to make Sangásang" said those who Maganáwan of Nagbotobotán commanded. They took the blood of the rooster mixed with rice, which was put in the saloko in the yard; they arrived to their master. "How slow you are," said Maganáwan.
Their mistress eats and says, "I did not think that the blood of people tasted so badly, now I shall not send you again, for you have already killed many people." "You whom I send, go to the place where our relatives live in Sudipán," said Maganáwan of Nagbotobotán, "because I desire very much the blood of the rooster mixed with rice." "How many snakes and birds now," said the Ipogau.
The people celebrated Sangásang, and sent blood and rice to Maganáwan, who, in turn, spat it out on the ground. As he did so, the sickness and misfortunes of the mortals vanished. The second diam relates a quarrel between the various parts of the house, each insisting on its own importance. At last they recognize their mutual dependence, and the people of the dwelling are again in good health.
The spirit Maganáwan sends his servants to secure the blood of a rooster mixed with rice. People see many snakes and birds near gate of town. They make the ceremony Sangásang and offer blood and rice. The servants of Maganáwan carry the offering to him. He takes it in his mouth and spits it out, and in the same way the sickness is removed from the mortals.
Continued misfortunes to the members of a household would also be an excuse for the ceremony. In this instance, the only variation from the procedure just given would be in the diams. The first to be recited tells how the spirit Maganáwan sent many snakes and birds to the gate of a town to demand the blood of a rooster mixed with rice.
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