The ampasit is a ceremony which is celebrated by the western Benguet
Kankanay to cure sexually caused diseases. The mambunong holds in one
hand a chicken which is to be sacrificed, and relates the following
story:
Ud bayag waday isa ifugau ya asauwana waday isay anakda babayi
mangadan si Ampasit. Sinamingsan si Ampasit inmui nan si
lokto. Sinkadona sinadan isa anak Timungau ay lalaki intabona
di anak ay babayi Ampasit. Sinkatauwataun si ama'n Ampasit adi
makaanop. Yatda un natui si Ampasit.
Sinisay agou sin inmoyan ama'n Ampasit ay manamus inilada si
Ampasit ay imaylagui si abalug ay bato. Sin ama inyatna un,
"Tola di inmoyarn?" "Inasauwak di Timungau ay lalaki, ut intabona
sakun sina." Inyagan amana sin buida ut nankanauda ut inayagana
si Timungau ya din kabaena.
Kakdinganda ay mangan, si Timungau ya din kabaena sin naada. Si
Timungau binmayun, ut nangamag, abu, kanau. Inayagona si Ampasit
ya si amana ya si inana.
Sin inmayan Ampasit ya si amana ya si inana sin kanau Timungau,
inmagyatda mosino di namolod si gudu sin balayan tan adi di inila
angan ililauunda.
Si ama'n Ampasit nanmimi. Anmimianda din mata'n di asauwan Ampasit
tan adina inila. Si Timungau inyatna, "Adimi pian ay makiasauwa sin
anakmi ay lalaki din Ampasit tan angan mosin buuitako manmimianda
din matatako. Sapoantabos da eda ta mansakitda ta adika manmimi."
Ta makabangon sin sakit, si ama'n Ampasit nangamag si kanau,
ut say inamwan ifugau di yatna ay maamay.
Long ago there were a man and his wife who had a daughter named
Ampasit. One day Ampasit went to get camotes. While she was on
the way, a son of Timungau hid the girl Ampasit. For a long time
the father of Ampasit could not find her. He thought that Ampasit
was dead.
One day when the parents of Ampasit had gone to bathe, they
saw Ampasit standing on a large rock. Her father said to her,
"Where have you been?" She said, "I married the son of Timungau,
and he hid me here." Her father called her to the house and gave
a ceremony, and invited Timungau and his family.
After Timungau and his family had finished eating, they went
home. Timungau was ashamed, and celebrated a ceremony also. He
invited Ampasit and her father and her mother.
When Ampasit and her father and her mother went to the ceremony
of Timungau, they wondered how the pigs in the yard were tied,
because they did not see, although they were looking.
The father of Ampasit urinated. He urinated on the face of the
husband of Ampasit, because he did not see him. Timungau said,
"We do not wish to have Ampasit married to our son, because even
at our own house they urinate on our faces. We will make them
sick so that they can not urinate."
So that they might get cured of the sickness, the father of
Ampasit had a ceremony, and taught the people what to say in
order to celebrate it.
The ampasit of the Kankanay is entirely different from the ceremony
of the same name celebrated by the Nabaloi. The Kankanay ampasit
corresponds in purpose to the Nabaloi basil. There is no similarity,
however, in the spoken rituals of these two ceremonies.