. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Science; Science -- New York (State). BENEDICT, BAGOBO CEREMONIAL, MAGIC AND MYTH 113 laid ten areca-nuts, and near the eleven green figures, nine areca- nuts; while the odd white figure had eleven nuts beside it, and the odd green one had nine. My notes do not state the precise arrangement of the tingoto and of the leaf-dishes on the ground; but my impression is that the ten white figures and the eleven green ones lay either inside of the leaf-dishes or close to them, while the odd white figure and the odd green one lay apart at a little distance.
. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Science; Science -- New York (State). BENEDICT, BAGOBO CEREMONIAL, MAGIC AND MYTH 113 laid ten areca-nuts, and near the eleven green figures, nine areca- nuts; while the odd white figure had eleven nuts beside it, and the odd green one had nine. My notes do not state the precise arrangement of the tingoto and of the leaf-dishes on the ground; but my impression is that the ten white figures and the eleven green ones lay either inside of the leaf-dishes or close to them, while the odd white figure and the odd green one lay apart at a little distance. Close beside three of the leaf-dishes, three sprays of magabadbad were planted, or stuck in the ground. After the ceremony, Oleng spoke to me of the symbolism. There are ten. with one more, of the white figures and eleven, with one more, of the green figures only because it has always been the custom of the Bagobo to use that number at Ginum, for the celebra- tion of Awas. He explained that the ten white figures are intended to hold the sickness and keep it away from us, while the eleven green figures are put there on account of the earthquake — to save us from harm. The white and the green tingoto that are kept apart from the rest represent the two horns of that great Buso deer called Naat who has one good horn and one bad horn. The white tingoto is the right antler, all of whose branches point upward and are good; but the green tingoto is the left antler, the bad one, that has one branch growing downward. Then Oleng seized my pen and made a diagrammatic sketch with a firm eager stroke, for he clearly considered this detail a vital point in the ceremony. Ceremony of Tanung, or Magic Rites against Buso. The distinctive elements of the rite called Tanung are two: first, the planting or sticking into the ground of a clump of branches from various vegetable growths that have a magic value; second, the placing of large wooden images, 10:1 as spirit scarers, at certain points nea
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