An elaborate marriage-blessing ritual performed as a major blessing ritual, pāhang, for a rich, newly-married couple.
This ritual is performed about a year after a couple has established a home. After another year or two, this ritual is `paired' with another, alagwang di īpad, which is a second pāhang ritual. The very rich might continue with elaborate marriage-blessing rituals every few years throughout a lifetime. This ritual is considered elaborate for the following reasons: 1) A large number of animals are sacrificed: from five or six pigs up to perhaps ten pigs and a couple of carabaos. 2) Three days before the ritual begins the men go to the forest to get materials for making a ritual sugarcane squeeze-press, build the press the second day and use the press ritually, hubul 2a, the third day, as described under hewagan 1a. 3) Dancing is engaged in on the evening commencing the ritual, hapālit. 4) The hapālit sub-ritual the first night ends with invitational chanting, baltung 1, to Būlul and his wife Būgan.