The Kankanay as well as the Nabaloi celebrate sibisib to cure
wounds. The mambunong holds against the wound the instrument with
which it was inflicted, while relating the following:
Si Boliwan waday dua anakna--da Lumawig un Kabigat.
Sin agou inmeda manganop, ut inaday isa makawas. Sumaada pay
nabayda ut nanibayda sin ilungan. Ginudgudda din patang ut
inbilagda.
Sin tinmotokdowanda din asoda inapayoda di oduum ay makawas. Din
dua sin agi inonodda di asoda. Inyudda un amada un bantayana
din patang.
Din isa sinsin agi niangna din makawas, yan adida ut maykapsu. Din
makawas linmayau ay waday gayang sin angina. Nantaolida sin
nanayanda un amada. Inilada ay yuwud patang.
Inyatna un amada, "Insedan mut patang." Inyat amada, "Adak insida,
nayiwud sin manaukak." Inyat anakna, un "Adika ibagay maptung;
insedan mut."
Bintyakanut, Boliwan, agusna sin bangina ut mati. Ut inila din
san agi ay iwud din patang sin agusna. Ut yatda un, "Angan yatmi
insidam, adan binutyakan akusmo ta adika natay."
Ut inbaladda ay manilit mo sino dinangisida sin patang. Inilada
di idu sin tongdon di bimabaktadanda, ut inyatna un, "Au,
insedak." Din dua sin agi inyatna un, "Puslundaka ut." Din idu
inyatna un, "Adikayo pomsu, ta asak todoan si dakayo si mamuyan si
magud, ya pabilayuk si amayo loman." Din idu inyatna un, "Yalio
san gayang, banig, bislak, ya matadum ay bato." Ut inamagda. Din
idu inpauina din gayanag, banig bislak, ya bato sin sagun nagudgud,
ya inbunongna. Si Boliwan natagu loman.
Din sin agi inyatda sin idu, "Waada ay anitoka." Din idu inyatna
un, "Au, sakun di anito." Din sin agi inyatda, un, "Ingosadtako
sin anak di ifugau tamo waday ingus nina ay manomang ya sidotako
di pangigapwanda mo sibsibanda."
Boliwan had two sons, Lumawig and Kabigat.
One day they went hunting, and caught a deer. They started home,
but became tired on the way. They cut the meat into pieces and
dried it.
While they were sitting down, their dogs ran after another
deer. The two brothers followed their dogs. They told their father
to guard the meat.
One of the brothers hit the deer with his spear, but did not kill
it. The deer ran away with the spear in his body. They returned
to the place where their father was staying. They saw that the
meat was gone.
They said to their father, "You surely ate the meat." Their
father said, "I did not eat it, it was taken away while I was
sleeping." The sons said, "You do not speak well; you certainly
ate it."
Boliwan cut open his (own) abdomen with a bolo, and died. Then
the two brothers saw that there was no meat in his stomach. Then
they said, "Although we said that you ate the meat, you should
not have cut open your abdomen and then you would not have died."
Then they lay down and watched to see who had eaten the meat. They
saw a snake above where they were standing, and said to it,
"Probably you ate the meat." The Snake answered, "Yes, I ate
it." The two brothers said, "We shall certainly kill you." The
Snake answered, "Do not kill me; I will teach you how to cure
wounds, and you can make your father alive again." The Snake said,
"Give me your spears, bolos, sticks, and sharp stones." They
gave them. The Snake put the spears, bolos, sticks, and rocks
near the wound and prayed. Boliwan became alive again.
The brothers said to the snake, "We think you are a god
(anito)." The Snake answered, "Yes, I am a god." The brothers
said, "We will tell the children of the people, so that if there
is something like this they may cure it, and may call our names
when celebrating the sibisib."
The story related in Buguias is substantially the same as the one
related by the Kabayan Nabaloi in the same ceremony.
The sibisib is celebrated in the town of Bacun in Amburayan, and in
Ampusungan of Lepanto, but I do not know whether it is made in other
Lepanto towns.