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Updated: June 4, 2025
For the present we shall take their point of view and shall try to reconstruct the life in "the first times" as it appears in the tales. At other times these places are referred to as Sudipan the term by which spirits are supposed to call the present earth while the actors are referred to as Ipogau the spirit name for Tinguian.
Similar beliefs are held by the Tinguian of Northern Luzon. Marriage is attended by gifts and ceremonies, such as we have previously described. We find the groom paying a price for his bride, but receiving a return gift from her parents; the couple feed one another with rice and are thereby legally married; and finally we learn that a child is kept with them until they have had intercourse.
As early as 1598 the Tinguian were so powerful and aggressive that active steps had to be taken to protect the coast people from their raids. Had they been recognized as being essentially Chinese a foreign, hostile population some mention of that fact must certainly have crept into the Spanish records of that period.
The second division of the tales now assumes a position of importance to us, for in it we find present day ideas and beliefs of the people strongly brought out, and are thus in a position to contrast them with the tenets of the people in "the first times." The influence of custom is exceedingly strong among the Tinguian of to-day.
The fire syringe, common west of Bontoc Province among the Tinguian, is not known in the Bontoc culture area. Division of labor Under this title must be grouped all forms of occupations which are considered necessary to the life of the pueblo. Up to the age of 5 or 6 years Bontoc children do not work.
The most noticeable fact, to the person familiar with Tinguian life, is that these are the only ceremonies mentioned among the many known and practiced at present. More than a score of different rites are now well known to this people, and occupy a very considerable portion of their time and attention during the first four months of the year.
Historical references and local traditions indicate that most of this movement has taken place since the arrival of the Spaniards, while the distribution of the great ceremonies gives a further suggestion that the dominant element in the Tinguian population has been settled in Abra for no great period.
The Tinguian and Ilocano granaries are of a distinctive type radically different from the Igorot, while the methods of thrashing in the two groups are entirely different. Finally, the ceremonial observances of the Tinguian, so far as the rice is concerned, are much more extensive and intricate than have been described for the Igorot.
It is a matter of common observation that the chief barrier between the two groups is religion, and, once let the pagan accept Christianity, he and his family are quickly absorbed by the Ilocano. Uninterrupted trade with the coast in recent years, Spanish and American influence, have doubtless affected considerable changes in the Tinguian.
It is doubtful if the Tinguian has ever speculated in regard to this magical force, yet he clearly separates it from the power resident in the spirit world. It appears to be a great undifferentiated force to which spirits, nature, and men are subject alike. His religion holds forth no threat of punishment in a future world, neither are there rewards in that existence to urge men to better deeds.
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