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Updated: May 23, 2025
You people who build tangpap must provide all the necessary things, even though they are costly. It is good that the Americans are here. I never talked with one before." Manaldek was the next arrival, and as he was one of the spirits who was supposed to have caused the patient's illness, his visit was of considerable importance. He was presented with a spear and prepared betel-nut.
They watched what he did when he made Sayang, and he did everything. He made balag, sagoyab, aligang, they made also tangpap, they made adagang, balabago, and what is needed for al-lot. After that, "You go home, and when you make Sayang you do as I did," said the man from Sayau.
Following the ceremony, the members of the family are barred from work, usually for one moon, and during this period they may not eat of wild pig or carabao, of lobsters or eels. An infraction of this rule would incur, the wrath of the spirits and result in sickness and disaster. Tangpap. In these villages it follows Pala-an after a lapse of two or three years.
Late in the afternoon, the spirit mat was spread in the yard near to the tangpap, and the mediums began summoning the spirits. The first to come was Mamabeyan, an Igorot spirit for whom the people showed the utmost contempt.
A Manabo woman, the wife of Sagasag, was seized with an illness which deprived her of the use of her limbs, and when other means of relief failed, was told by the spirits to give the Tangpap ceremony, to which she already had a hereditary right. A medium was summoned, and she, with two assistants, began to prepare many presents for the spirits who were expected to attend the ceremony.
Bani-it or Bunot: Consists of a coconut husk suspended from a pole. The feathers of a rooster are stuck into the sides. It is made as a cure for sick-headache, also for lameness. Bangbangsal: Four long bamboo poles are set in the ground, and are roofed over to make a shelter for the spirits of Sayaw, who come in the Tangpap ceremony.
As a final act basi is served to all, and tadek is danced until the guests are ready to return to their homes. In San Juan they make the spirit raft taltalabong as in Tangpap, and set it afloat at sunset. The mediums are paid off in rice, a portion of the slaughtered animals, beads, one or two blankets, and perhaps a weapon or piece of money.
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