A defense ritual, performed to prevent or remedy misfortune or bring good luck, in which hagawhaw prayers are recited.
Begins about midmorning, nunta'dang, and continues to about early afternoon, noyob; ritualists, mumbā'i, gather again at night, attup, to complete the ritual, as described below. A reliquary for defense rituals, hāpag, is required. Betel nuts, mama; betel leaves, hāpid; and lime, āpul, are placed in the reliquary along with rice beer, bayah, in a small drinking bowl, ūngut. After drinking rice beer, prayers are recited to numerous spirits. One ritualist then takes a barricade spike, hūga, from the reliquary and, holding it as though using it as a pointer, prays to the reliquary, ta'ta'2, seeking permission to continue the ritual. If they are not to continue, the reliquary is to signal this by shaking the house under which the ritual is performed, dropping something inside onto the floor or causing stones to roll down, pulūug. To continue after a signal to stop would bring calamity or death. Prayers are then continued, at the end of which an animal is sacrificed, either a duck, dog, pig or a couple of chickens. If pigs or chickens are killed and the bile sac gives a good omen, the ritual ends. If the bile is bad or if a duck or other animal is sacrificed they reassemble at night to perform attup rites. Several prayers are recited, and about six chickens are killed. After the chickens are singed two ritualists stand holding them and first pronounce a blessing, hapud 4, honga 1, on the family of the one sponsoring the ritual, followed by cursing, duhong, their enemies by name. The chickens are then cooked and eaten with rice by the ritualists. Occasions for which this ritual is performed include the following: when one's flock of chickens is being depleted by being lost; when something portends a death, gībo', as when a pig or dog eats chickens, a chicken eats its eggs, the sun or moon turns red, or wine or rice is prematurely spoiled; when crops are failing due to disease, infestation of worms, rats; as a remedy when one has been having dreams, or when other omens have signalled impending misfortune; as a prevention of snakebite; to generally request good health, healthy flocks and the like.
For someone (agent) to kill animals, chickens, a duck (patient -on) during a defense ritual, as described above.
Ongol din bābuy an hinagawhaw Buy'a.
The pig which Buy'a killed during the defense ritual was large.