For someone (agent maN-) to sponsor a major blessing ritual, using sacrificial chickens or animals (inst i-) for good health, protection against accident, success in raising crops and livestock.
mamāhang
Tuluy bābuy hi impāhang Alanghābon ta hongan han apūna.
Alanghābon used three pigs to sponsor a major blessing ritual, so that they would be a bless-offering for his grandchild.
A major blessing ritual is performed: 1) For the blessing of newlyweds, i.e., a couple who have established a home about a year earlier, duyduyah, īpad. After another year or two, this marriage-blessing ritual is `paired' with another, alagwang di duyduyah, alagwang di īpad. 2) For a sick person or an elderly person soon to die. A prosperity blessing, honga 1, is pronounced during this pāhang ritual. 3) When a rich person has an abundance of pigs, he may sacrifice them for a general blessing on the family, flocks and fields, īpad. A major blessing ritual lasts for two nights, a full day and a final morning. Relatives to the fourth-cousin relationship along with any of the people of the housing cluster, hīgib, in which the event is held, gather to join in the event. The first night, a hapālit sub-ritual is performed, which includes prayers to numerous spirits and sacrificing two chickens. This sub-ritual continues all night. The rich conclude the sub-ritual by calling Būlul and Būgan the wife of Būlul, Būgan an hi Imbūlul, by invitational chanting, baltung 1, to join the festivities. The following day begins with a hida sub-ritual. Prayers are offered to spirits and then ritualists, mumbā'i, dance over the trussed sacrificial pigs, hadyap. The pigs are killed and taken into the house. The ritualists engage in a rhythmic chanted prayer, hālit 2, over the pigs. They are then taken outside, singed, butchered and divided into pieces. Some meat is set aside, both for the ritualists and the people gathered, to take home. One or two large rump pieces are set aside for the people of the housing cluster, and the remainder is cooked. Before the ritualists and people eat, the one or ones for whom the ritual is performed are blessed, hapud 3. That night, a sub-ritual, attup, bāoy 1a, is observed. Prayers to numerous spirits including bāoy prayers are again recited. Half of each pig head along with the intestines, stomach and lungs and two or three sacrificed chickens are cooked and eaten by the ritualists, male members of the household and near neighbors, concluding the evening's activities. The following morning, the ritualists return to complete the event with an āhiw sub-ritual, reciting prayers to numerous spirits and concluding the event by eating the remaining half of the pigs' heads.
duyduyah 2
honga 2
īpad 2