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1

A holiday to observe a special occasion, such as initiation or completion of rice planting, transplanting or harvest, construction of a new upland field, occasions for paying respect to the dead.

A holiday restricts work in general or work in pond or upland fields; some holidays prohibit passage through fields or entrance or exit from the village. For a listing see Appendix 6, Holidays.

mahīmah

2

For a village agricultural head, haldot, leader in rice agriculture, tonong, or a ceremonial leader in constructing a new upland field, mundū'ul (agent -um-; s agent muɴ-), to place a given area (patient -on) out-of-bounds for work or passage, by declaring a holiday.

The area out-of-bounds might be the pond fields of one agricultural division, ahintomona', a given area where new upland fields are being constructed, or all pond and upland fields of the village or the entire village area including fields, depending on the kind of holiday declared.

oldang 2

ālup1 2 tūngaw1 1c

3

For someone (agent muɴ- & theme) to exercise abstinence from something (loc ref -on) tabooed, caused by certain events (inst i-), as described below.

Nungngīlin nan haldot ti hiyay nangipatang hinan binu'bu'ung.

The village agricultural head exercised abstinence because he was the one to plant the four ritual rice panicles.

Ingīlinday inihdādan nibā'i at adīda ihday halawhaw.

They will use (the meat) they ate which was used in performing traditional religious ceremonies to cause them to exercise abstinence and so they will not eat vegetables.

Abstinence is varied and extensive; e.g., women who are engaged in planting seedbeds may not eat edible aquatic invertebrates or vegetables, or bathe; during planting seedbeds and rice transplanting, they may not engage in sexual relations. When a traditional religious ceremony is performed for a sick person, that person and ritualists, mumbā'i, performing the ceremony are prohibited from eating edible aquatic invertebrates and vegetables and from bathing; a family and the ritualists offering prayers for them during ceremonies involving a violent death, bināgung, or headhunting ritual, bahbah2, may not eat aquatic food or vegetables, and may not engage in sexual relations.