A ritual performed for a sick person in which ma'āyiw 2 prayers are recited and three to four chickens are sacrificed.
A private ritual; no non-family members of the community are invited. Begins about mid-morning, nunta'dang, and continues to about mid-afternoon, nahīlip. Numerous prayers are recited, interspersed with periods of rice-beer drinking and story telling by ritualists, mumbā'i. A lead ritualist, mun'odon, is chosen to recite the ma'āyiw 2 prayers. Included are prayers to the following spirits: ma'āyiw ad dolom, Ma'āyiw spirits of the underworld; ma'āyiw ad dāya, Ma'āyiw spirits of the skyworld; ma'āyiw ad lāgud, Ma'āyiw spirits of downriver region. The ritualist reciting these prayers uses a feathered headdress which he puts on to begin the prayers and then places beside a rice-beer bowl. Following prayers, the chickens are singed and, while smoking, held up, and smoke is blown first at the sick person and then at the family in general, as a ritualist invokes a blessing, hapud 3, calling first on the spirits to whom prayers were addressed during the ritual, and then calling on Mana'hāut for him to add a blessing. The chickens are then cleaned, cooked and eaten by the ritualists with rice.