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1

Taboo.

Panīaw unta mi'yibun hinan agi.

(It) is taboo for one to sit with his sister.

Taboos are extensive, governing many aspects of everyday life. For example, it is taboo to do or say something classed as offensive, līhog; to eat vegetables with meat offered in sacrifice during the time of harvest; for a man to sleep with his wife or have sexual contact with her for a period of a month following the sponsoring of a headhunting enactment ritual, bahbah, or a ceremony at his house for a person killed violently, bināgung, or during the drying period, about two weeks, of the family's newly-harvested rice; for a ritualist, mumbā'i, to bathe, eat vegetables, sleep with his spouse after various kinds of ritual prayers.

2

A taboo prayer.

This prayer is offered in connection with pregnancy of women or animals or involving brooding hens. It is offered especially when there are problems involved, as e.g., when a woman has premature birth pains or is nauseated or otherwise sick when pregnant; when a pregnant pig becomes sick or delivers prematurely; when a brooding hen becomes sick. The prayer is in the form of a ritualized folk narrative in which, because Wīgan and Būgan neglect to offer taboo spirit sacrifices from their abundant flock of pigs, Būgan is spirited away by taboo spirits and is taken to Underworld, Dolom. Wigan rescues her but this teaches them not to neglect offering dried spirit offerings, ūhib, to taboo spirits. At the end of this prayer, a ritualist uses a dried spirit offering to pronounce a benediction, hapud 3, on the sick person, animal or chicken.

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3

A taboo spirit.

A class name of spirits living in Downriver region, Lāgud, and in Underworld, Dalom. For a description of a ritualized folk narrative involving taboo spirits, see above.

4

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to consider someone, something, an action (patient -on) as taboo, based on tradition.

Pinanīaw nan tanong an mummangīli at mi'id ah mangīli hi umuy hi dolāna.

The agricultural leader considered taboo his entertaining of visitors and so no visitors will go to his residence.

Taboos are not declared; they are followed according to the dictates of tradition and enforced passively by social pressure, censure, etc.