The pasang is celebrated to cause children to be born. The mambunong
holds a chicken in each hand and squats between two baskets of
blankets, while relating the following story:
Wada, kano, Bintauan un Apinan. Sin Agida. Adida, kanon, mananak
ya mo manawasda pay, kano, sumakisakit sin agusda asauwada.
Amuida ut, kanominda manpaanap. Datgnunda, kano, san usay bato
ay bui; binmali san usay dakdakui ya ando ay ipugau ay maata di
kadumna. Asi ibaganda Bintauan un Apinan ay mananap mo sinoi inmat
un asauwada. Asina kanon un, "Amui kayo un boan si agou tan siay
mangamo si anap."
Ungayanan amuida Bintauan un Apinan. Datunga pay, kano,
san nantotomtoman di lota ya ud tagui. Wada san dadakui ay
buui. Binmali ut, kano, abu san usay ipugau ay mandada di matana
mayatag kaduna. "Sinoi gapona si inmalianyo?" "Inkami manpaanap tan
mo manowas san asauwami ya mansakit ya adikami mananak." "Adi pay,
amok di anap, ut amui kayo unda agou un Boan tan daeda dimangamo
si anap."
Amuida ut, kano, ingilada di mantumtumog san dua ay kaman buui
ay bato ay kalimlimosan si danom. Amugyapda, kano, ay amui ut
impaononada san asoda. Ilanda ut, kano, nabasil. Ungayan omonodda
si asoda. Mabas ilda ut diay nayapapa ut tagui, yan wada san
adado ay buui ay nanataatang.
Dumatang pay yan kabala san si asauwa'n agou, ut kinwanina,
"Sinoi kayo?" "Unmali kami ta kami nanpaanap tan adi mananak si
asauwami yan mo manawas da mansakitda." "Sangupkayo sian daounmi
tan mo dumatung si agou malpa kayo." Ungayan singupda sin daoun
di buui di agou.
Dumatung pay, kano, si agou ut inbaga un, "Mo waday inmali
ay ipugau ud kugau?" "Au, ay panada si daon di buui. Unda
kanon manpaanap tan adi mananakda asauwada ya mansakitda mo
manowasda." Ungayan ay agou inbgana Apinan un Bintauan, "Sinoi
gapona si inmalianyo?" "Inmali kami tan un kami manpaanap." Ungayan
kinwanina agou, "Sumaa kayo ut yaanyo di pasang, ut maganak kayo."
Sumaada Apinan un Bintauan ut siay inyatda ut nanganakda, ya adi
nansakit si asauwada mo manawasda.
There were Bintauan and Apinan. They were brothers. They did not
have children, and when their wives had their menses, they were
sick in the abdomen.
They went then to get some one to make the divination
ceremony. They found a stone house; a large tall man with green
eyebrows came out of it. Then Bintauan and Apinan asked him to make
the divination ceremony so that they could learn what troubled
their wives. Then he said, "Go to the Sun and Moon because they
know the divination ceremony."
Then Bintauan and Apinan went away. They arrived then at the
meeting place of the earth and the sky. There was a large house. A
red-eyed man with green eyebrows came out of it. "For what reason
did you come?" "We came to cause the divination ceremony to be
made, because when our wives have their menses they get sick and do
not have children." "I do not know the divination ceremony; go to
the Sun and the Moon, because they know the divination ceremony."
They went on and saw two stones as large as a house striking each
other, where the water empties. They were afraid to go farther,
but sent their dog ahead. They saw he was on the other side. Then
they followed their dog. They arrived on the other side, where
there were many houses joined together.
They arrived then, and the wife of the Sun came out and said,
"Who are you?" "We came to have the divination ceremony made,
because our wives do not have children and when they have their
menses they are sick." "Come under the house because when the
Sun arrives he will wilt you." Then they went under the house of
the Sun.
When the Sun arrived, he asked, "Did men come at noon?" "Yes,
they are waiting under the house. They came to have the divination
ceremony held, because their wives do not have children and they
get sick when they have their menses." Then the Sun asked Apinan
and Bintauan, "Why did you come?" "We came to have the divination
ceremony celebrated." Then the Sun said, "Go home and celebrate
the pasang, and you will have children."
They went home and did so and had children, and their wives were
not sick when they had their menses.
There is no dancing in connection with this ceremony in the western
Benguet Kankanay towns, but in Buguias the wife and husband dance. The
wife carries her camote basket filled with blankets, breech-clouts,
and cloth, which are offered to the pasang.
The pasang is celebrated for the same purpose by the Nabaloi, the
Lepanto Kankanay, and probably other Igorot tribes. I have been told
that a corresponding ceremony is celebrated as far north as Kalinga.