Eighth, Innabaya “put up your hands to receive the crops to be carried home.”. Seventh, Pinadjosan “fortune” carrying the bountiful harvest. Sixth, Inodiyan “turn or reverse position to confuse the enemy.”. Fifth, Inoshongan or protection “The warriors protect the community.”. Fourth, Kinikiyan, a challenge to the enemy. Third, Kinitangan, a relax position both hands on hips. The rest of the dance steps are Salawasaw announcing to the World “we are the bravest victorious warriors” both arms extended upward. Men, separated from women, join them and form a circle with the right hand extended down near the ground. While executing the first dance position, Penesbekan, “attack and take over,” the other lead dancers follow with uniform movements as the long line of dancers go in two-line formation. It is a fatigue dance and the word Bendiyan or Binendiyan means “let us see who gets tired.”Īs the dancing starts, the lead man shouts at the top of his voice, Woo-oy! It is participated in by as many as there are present in the celebration. It is performed for the entertainment of local and foreign visitors.īendiyan is a mass dance. At present, it is modified to honor Kaboniyan for a bountiful harvest since there is no longer tribal war. Ba-diw is performed but not the tayaw.īendiyan, the Benguet dance, is a ritual and ceremonial dance to celebrate victory and vengeance in the olden times. A pig is butchered and accompanied by a jar of rice wine. It is a small kanyaw usually done a day after a wake, after a wedding or before going or arriving from a travel to far place. The mambunong assures the spirits that if the family is blessed with fortune and progress they can give more offering to the concerned spirits. Rice is offered to the kaapo-an spirits together with tapey. It is a kanyaw done to ask the blessings of kaapo-an “soul of departed one.” A pig is butchered and cooked together with other food cooked like taro, aba in Nabaloy dialect. Tayaw dance and ba-diw is performed with drinking of tapey. A minimum of 3 pigs is butchered and big animals like cow, carabao and horse maybe also butchered. It is a kanyaw to honor a kaapo-an and is usually done during death anniversary of a departed one. Many jars or salaw of tapey is consumed while tayaw dance and ba-diw is done day and night. Big animals are also butchered like cow or carabao. Then he has to start all over again from 3 pigs if he is still strong and rich. One must start in butchering 3 keshel or big castrated hogs, then 6 pigs, 9 and 12 pigs. It is believed that by sharing his blessings to the community, to Kaboniyan and kaapo-ans, he will be more blessed with riches and long life. Relatives or prominent people from other towns or communities are invited called Awit in Nabaloy dialect. It is the highest form of kanyaw or kesheng (Ibaloy term for feast), a prestige feast performed by the wealthy, who owns many heads of animals and a vast rice plantation. He may also ask for clothings, blanket, tobacco and money to be offered and placed in a winower or kiyag, biga-o. 
Depending on the graveness of the offense, the kedaring thru the mambunong, may ask for a pig or smaller animal to be butchered. The local priest called mambunong, thru his prayer, asks the kedaring what is needed. It is believed that when someone is sick, He or She offended a kedaring, the bad spirit. Their names are called or shouted while they are represented by a relative performing the tayaw and served a tapey (ricewine) on their name while being cheered by the crowd shouting the ooway adivay.
From time to time, these kaapo-an are honored by butchering pigs or animals like cow or carabao. These are considered the bad spirits while the good spirits are called kaapo-an, which are believed to be the spirits of beloved departed ones. The Kankanaey call them adikaila, which the old folks believe can give sickness to anyone who disturbs them. The Benguet people believe in Kaboniyan (God), which the Ibaloys call Apo Shiyos and Goddesses egma on-an or kedaring called by Ibaloys. They only vary in naming them in their dialect. The Benguet people-Ibaloys, Kankanaey, Kalanguya and Karaos- have similar beliefs, traditions and culture.
9 th Igorot Cordillera BIMAAK Consultation
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