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Traditions of the Tinguian

Note 59 — 4

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In the afternoon they began to make Sayang.59 Not long after the old woman Alokotán, who conducted the Sayang and made them dance Da-eng,60 arrived and she began to perform the ceremony. When it became morning, “You people who live with us, come and pound rice,” said Aponībolinayen. So the people gathered and pounded rice for them. As soon as they finished pounding rice she commanded her liblibayan61 to go and get betel-nuts. When they arrived with the betel-nuts, “You betel-nuts come and oil yourselves and go to invite all our relatives, for we are making Sayang. Invite all the people except the old enemies,” she said and when it became evening they made Lībon62

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