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ābuy

An omen bird invocation, addressed to an omen bird, īdaw, to request it to give or confirm a good omen.

Nan +ābuy Ballag di maphod ti adīna ul'ulodyon.

The omen bird invocation of Ballag is good because he doesn't speak softly.

For someone (agent muɴ-) to say an omen bird invocation.

For someone (agent muɴ-, -um- + CVCV-; s agent maN-) to address an omen bird invocation (theme) to an omen bird, īdaw (loc ref -an), to request it to give or confirm a good omen.

Inabūyan Ballag nan īdaw ya inalīnay, Hīi, wah nā'a ay hi bālu'na unu bagtūna, oya bumūhu''a ta ipattu'muy labuymuh hapang di āyiw ta donglon an amin di napū'it ta ammay.

Ballag addressed an omen bird invocation to an omen bird and said, ©Hey, if you are in the valley below or above come out and light on the branch of a tree with your good omen call so that all the deaf can hear it and it will be pleasant (to hear).ª

An omen bird is consulted before engaging in activities such as the following: hunting wild pigs or deer; travelling outside the village area to earn money; selling valuable possessions such as gongs or jars; going on a headhunting trip or to war; making a new pond field or upland field.

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For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to shout a magical utterance (theme) against a portentous dream (loc ref -an) as protection from its consequences.

Nun'ābuy hi Ballag ya inalīnay, Adyū'ay bābuy! An nunggāyadda ya numpīlatda. Ya dedehhononda ya alyonday, ©Agguy; binalīwanmi, matāgu, mangan, mummayakmak.ª

Ballag shouted a magical utterance and said, ©What a waste of the pig! They have dismembered it and cut it up.ª They (the people) answer and say, ©No; we have saved it, it lives, it eats, it smacks its jaws (in eating).ª

A portentous dream may be of a burning house, which forecasts a death in the family. This is counteracted by setting fire momentarily to the family house and shouting a magical utterance during a sacrifice of pigs, pāhang. Or the dream may be of killing a pig, which portends the death of a son or daughter. During the sacrifice of pigs, a ritualist squats in the doorway of the family house and shouts a magical utterance, joined in a chorus by others present, as illustrated above.

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