A class of guard spirits to which ritual prayers are addressed.
Some of these spirits live in the underworld, dolom; others live around the houses guarding the following locations: dooryard, kolhoddan; drainage ditch, uwāleng; eaves, hībuy; ladder, toytoy; mortar, luhung; wine jar, tibung. The following are taboos which function to cause the residents of a given house to be aware of these guard spirits. In the early morning, mahoyang, one must not sit on a ladder, or dooryard; one must never sit on a mortar; when it rains one must not stand along the drainage ditch nor play with water dripping from the eaves. When offended, these spirits inflict stomach pain; it is removed by persuasion during a time when a ritualist, mumbā'i, seeks information regarding the inflicting spirit while saying a breathy prayer, hapud 2a, or when a liblibāyan prayer is recited, liblibāyan 2, at which time rice beer is offered as an appeasement. No animal or chicken sacrifices are made to them. Some of them, along with bagāwah spirits are guardians of rice beer. Before closing a wine jar after drinking rice beer for the first time after it is made, a little beer is offered to these spirits along with bagāwah spirits, and prayers are offered to them by a ritualist. Along with several other spirit classes, traditional religious ceremonies always begin by calling these spirits, liblibāyan 2.