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Updated: June 15, 2025
A remarkable thing is the family life, or lack of it rather: as soon as children are three or four years old, they leave the roof under which they were born and go to sleep, the boys in a sort of dormitory called pabajunan, occupied as well by the unmarried men, and the girls in one called olog.
A sort of trial marriage seems to exist; the young men freely visit the olog indeed, are expected to. If results follow, it is a marriage, and the couple go to housekeeping; otherwise all the parties in interest are free. Marriage ties are respected, adultery being punished with death; but a man may have more than one wife, though usually that number is not exceeded.
Several other spirits then entered the body of the medium, and after receiving food and drink, gave friendly advice. When the child is about two years old, a ceremony known as Olog is held. The mediums who are summoned prepare a spirit mat, and at once begin to recite diams over the body of a bound pig.
And, as one may ask whether pearls are costly because ladies like them or whether ladies like pearls because they are costly, so here: Is the Igorot house so poor an affair because of the olog, etc., or does the olog exist because the house is poor? Be this as it may, and to resume, the children go on sleeping in their respective pabajunan and olog until they are grown up and married.
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