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1

A class of enemy-defeating spirits.

These spirits are aligned with various villages. Those aligned with the village of the person sponsoring a traditional religious ceremony are appealed to to protect him, his family or companions, depending on the purpose of the prayers recited. Typical prayers are for the purpose of making one's enemies weak, causing them to die or to become ineffective, and to make the halūpe prayers of one's enemies, and spirits executing them, ineffective.

2a

A ritual prayer to enemy-defeating spirits.

Batad has a repertoire of at least eleven such prayers. Most are ritualized narratives about Būgan and Wīgan defeating their enemies, ending with an appeal to enemy-defeating spirits to aid the sponsor of the ritual prayers. The following are some of the occasions during which these prayers are offered: a headhunting enactment ritual, bahbah2; the death of one who died violently, bināgung; a dispute-settling contest, haddā'an; warfare between villages, būhul; a defense ritual to prevent or remedy misfortune, hagawhaw; a second-evening sub-ritual, bāoy, of a major blessing ritual, pāhang.

2b

For ritualists (actor maN-) to offer enemy-defeating prayers, as described above.

manalupe

For ritualists (agent muɴ-) to offer enemy-defeating prayers against an enemy of the sponsor of the prayers (benef i-an), as described above.

Inhalupāyan Magga' nan binuhulna an iyAgunītan at adīda mahkay mi'būhul.

Magga' offered enemy-defeating prayers against those he fought from Agunītan and so finally they don't fight with him.

i-an: ihalupayan

ihalupayan

For someone (agent) to use a particular prayer or chicken (inst i-) for offering enemy-defeating prayers.