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Chapter Four. Religious Beliefs and Practices |
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prayers on all important occasions to Gawang |
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When a men's house was rebuilt, an old man prayed, "Gawang, let the men and boys of this morung be healthy." At the spring festival when the clan elders sacrificed pigs, they prayed to Gawang for ample crops of rice and millet, and before a man went hunting he prayed, "Gawang, give that I may encounter wild boars and wild sows." If the hunter was successful, he cut off a small piece of the slain animal's flesh and threw it into the forest for Gawang with the words, "Give me in future another pig." |
