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presents to Angs, rituals with rice |
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Informant: Dzeam-ang, Ang of Balang morung. |
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The morung Ang receives from every wild animal killed the head, - and of all animals sacrificed at morung gennas one hind leg. |
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There are morung genna in the month of Lia - in front of the morung one mithan and one pig, - they must be of different sex, - are killed, - and one cock is killed in the morung. |
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Then from the fields some rice, some millet, some taro etc. are taken and put within the little fence near the morung. |
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(37) The latter refers to a large flat stone near Kongan and on this every year rice plants grow, presumably from grains brought by birds, - the rice comes from under the wings of birds. |
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1. The rice may come out of their split toes, (the rice which they have eaten in the fields!) |