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1a

A feather blessing of someone or something.

A person's feather blessing is a blessing that person pronounces upon his or her offspring with the use of a feather.

Hi mā'et di yabyab Habbēleng ti nidadāan.

Habbēleng's feather blessing (for his offspring) will be tomorrow because (that needed for the blessing) is prepared.

A possessive relationship involving objects indicates the blessing of the object; see Feather Blessing of Objects below.

A feather blessing involves the use of a blessing aid, hinangānga, of feathers or leaves and feathers dipped in the blood of a sacrificed animal or chicken and held by one pronouncing a blessing to make it more effective. An elderly person about to die, during a major blessing ritual, pāhang, for him or her, takes a blessing aid and pronounces a feather blessing on his or her offspring, also called a final benediction; see adāog 4 for description. Various objects, as listed below, are blessed with the use of feathers dipped in blood.

Feather Blessing of Objects
yabyab di alīnaw	`feather blessing of alīnaw bark fiber, (used as rice bundling cord, see tānig 1b)'
yabyab di hīgib	`feather blessing of a housing cluster (during a fire-making ritual, ulīli 1)'
yabyab di hīwang	‘feather blessing of a (newly acquired) charm’
yabyab di gangha	‘feather blessing of a (newly acquired) gong’
yabyab di tibung	‘feather blessing of a (newly acquired) wine jar’

1b

For relatives of an elderly sick person, someone who has acquired an important object (agent CV- + muɴ-) to sponsor a feather blessing for the sick person, acquired object, as described above.

Hi mā'et ya munyayabyabdah dolan Mundēgeng ti magadyuh an matoy hi ināna an adi mangan.

Tomorrow they will sponsor a feather blessing at the home of Mundēgeng because his mother is about to die since she will not eat.

1c

For a ritualist (agent) to feather-bless an important acquired object (loc ref -an), with the use of a sacrificial animal, chicken, blessing aid, hinangānga (inst i-, puɴ-), as described above.

Verb forms with yabyab are not used to describe the action of an elderly sick person pronouncing a blessing. See adāog 4 for description.

adāog 4 hapud 4

2

A feather-bless-offering of chickens and/or pigs, used to bless offspring or an important acquired object, as described above.

For a blessing of one's offspring, from one chicken up to three large pigs are sacrificed. For the blessing of an object, one to three chickens are used.