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Traditions of the Tinguian

Note 166 — 17

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When they all sat down beside the river, Dalonágan said, “What shall we use for the alawig,166 for your father and mother?” “The singed pig, for it is the custom of the people in Kadalayapan,” said Kanag to his mother-in-law. “Go and get some of the pigs and singe them,” said Dalonágan to him. Not long after he singed the pigs and he carried them to the people, and his wife Dapilī́san carried one little jar which looked like a fist, filled with basi. As soon as the woman who was making Sayang had finished the dīam167 near by the well, Dapilī́san made the people drink the basi which she carried. Each person drank from a golden cup filled with basi from out of the little jar which looked like a fist, and one third of the basi in the jar was still left.168 As soon as the people drank they took them up to the town.

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