The liblibian is a ceremony which is celebrated in Kibungan and the
neighboring Kankanay towns to cure diarrhoea and pains in the abdomen.
The mambunong holds in one hand a kind of plant called dungau while
relating the following story:
Wada, kano, san dua ay sin agi, Bogan un Singan. Si Bogan baybayi,
si Singan lalaki. Maanakda pay, kano, yan dua ay lalaki. Din
dakdakui si Pintun; din banbanug sia si Liblibian.
Ungay pay, kano, madakdakda yan adi da mangan. Idawad amada tan
inada san gawan di inapoi ya gawan di atui yan adida laydum.
Usay agou pay, kano, yan inmauway da amada ya inada dumatungda
ut, kano, yan ingay kinanda pinilak san gambangda. Kinwanida un,
"Ay takun ay gambang landok di laydingyo ay kanun." "Au, landok
di laydunmi ay kanunmi."
Ungayan mankoyog ut, kano, Liblibian un Pintun ut amuida isan
kayiloguan. Domatungda payan siblaganda san anak di Iloko ta
waday gapona si pangianda undaita si banig ta wada kanunda. Adi
ut, kano, amonsan Iloko di mangiya un daeda si banigda, kano,
yan pagdin adas di amoda. Kinwanida un, "Kambau! Adi amom nan
Iloko di buni, ut amuitako'd sinan kayigorotan."
Amuita pay, kano, yan sinan kayigorotan, yan siblaganda san usay
anak di Igorot. Kaa ut, kano, usay, manok ya sinpo ya lima ay
banig ut isay paday liblibian. Kinatut kakansan ut pay bomangan
san anakda.
There were a brother and sister, Bogan and Singan. Bogan was
a woman and Singan was a man. They had children, two boys. The
larger was Pintun, the smaller was Liblibian.
When they became older they did not eat. Their father gave the
cooked rice from the center (of the pot) and the center of the
liver, but they did not like it.
One day when their father and mother had gone to cultivate the
land and had returned, they had already eaten one-half of their
pot. They said, "How is this? you like to eat iron pots." "Yes,
iron is what we like to eat."
Then Liblibian and Pintun left together and went to the land of
the Ilocano. When they arrived they made one child of an Ilocano
sick so that there would be a reason for giving them bolos to
eat. The Ilocano did not know enough to give them bolos to eat,
but knew of medicine only. They said, "Oh! The Ilocano do not
know the prayer, so let us go to Igorot land."
They went to Igorot land and made sick one child of an Igorot. He
took at once one chicken and fifteen bolos and held the ceremony
liblibian. As soon as this was done, the sickness of the child
was cured at once.