Manbating is one of the ceremonies which is held when a person is
bleeding from the nose or mouth. The mambunong holds a chicken in
one hand, while he sits in front of a basket containing a rope and
says the following:
Wada, kano, san dua sin agi--Timungau. Unda pay, kano,
nanogian. Datgnunda ut san usay togi ay imui us dalum san
bugasna ut duiay pakdanonodun, yan dintangda san usay dalipoi ay
bato. Tokwabunda payan.
Ilaunda, kano, ut nabokalan san kadan di bato, ut nandahos san
matada ud dalum. Ilaunda, payun nada, kano, baoi yan nada mansida
us dalum. Ungayun alaunda ut, kano, san talida ut pansissilpoonda
ut itakudda ut siay pandananda ay amui adalum.
Domatunga payan mansida. Daeda unda mangan. Mangmanganda pay,
kano, yan nguda utut, kanon, san iposan un, "Dupapuntako to
ipangantako." Ungayan inmagyatda ut duiata kaaninta san iniwitanda
ut itakudda isan pantu ta siay pangililanda si kawadata, yan
duantapui komaan. Inayan siay inyatda.
Asida ut dupapunda eda ut pay kanon nan sin agi, un "Adi kayo
pompomsu ta asauwak san anakmo." Ungayan adida pinpinsuida eda
ut pangasauwaun san anak Maseken. Ingayan konan, kono, Maseken,
"Tako manganop."
Amui dapag, kano, yan ituiun san inapona isan subang
duanpag. Amuida Maseken yesan oduum ay kadwana, ut unda apayauun
san kananda un noang ay nakay. Bumatung ut, kano, isan kadan si
inapona, ut ilana nabakus san manugtug ay kadanda un anapanda.
Ungayan adina siniloan yan pinalobosna, ut amui. Dumatung pay
si Maseken yan yamyamana san inapona, ut ungayan apayau unda san
nabakus ay si ininada, ut dupapunda ut labakunda. Idatungda payan
ut kananda ipanganda. Asi ut kinwanin san inapona un, "Adikami
pay ladum san ipugau ay ipangan." Ingayan kinwanin Maseken un,
"Mantaolika mo adi kayo laydum di ipugau ay ipangan."
Ingayan mantaolida sinan sapui di lota, ut asida, kano,
kinwanida un, "Manalako's tali ta waday sapountako si batun ta
waday panbatungtako si ipangantako." Ingayan mansapoda si batun
ta waday panbatung si ipugau. Asi kinwanin dua ay sin agi un,
"Alauntakona ta ipangan." Asi ut kinwanin Maseken un, "Dakui ta
omyada's tali ya manok ta mo adida omiya, asi alaun nan ipugau
ay batungantako."
There were two brothers, the Timungau. They went to get
camotes. They found one camote the root of which went far into
the ground, and they dug after it and found a wide stone. They
turned it over.
They looked into the opened place, and their eyes saw to the
underworld. They saw there a house, and there was being celebrated
a ceremony in the underworld. Then they got their rope and fastened
and tied it, and it was this way they went to the underworld.
Then they arrived at the ceremony. They went to eat. They were
eating when they heard the inhabitants of the underworld say,
"We will catch you so that we may eat you." Then they became
afraid, and took off their breech-clouts and tied them on the
door so that it would be thought they were there. This they did.
Then they caught them, and one of the brothers said, "Do not
kill us because I will marry your daughter." Then they did not
kill them, and he married one of the daughters of Maseken. Then
Maseken said, "Let us go to hunt."
They went below, but the son-in-law stayed in the trail. Maseken
and his companions went, and ran after an old carabao. They
arrived at the place of the son-in-law, and he saw that an old
woman was running at the place they were hunting.
Then he did not lasso her, but let her go; then he went
away. Maseken arrived and scolded his son-in-law, and then ran
after the old woman, their mother, and caught her and wounded
her. Then the son-in-law said, "We do not like to eat people." Then
Maseken said, "Return, if you do not like to eat people."
Then they returned to the top of the ground and said, "We will get
the rope so that there is something for making a net so that we
can catch our food with the net." Then they made a net so that
there was something to net people with. Then the two brothers
said, "Take this in order that you may eat." But Maseken said,
"They will give us rope and chickens, because if they do not give
them to us we will catch the people with the net."