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    Human Sacrifice

    • The word ginum (inum) means “a drinking,”.


    • The orthodox time for the performance of a ceremony is determined by observation of the
    heavenly bodies.
    • In preparation for the ceremony of Ginum, a large, well-roofed house is built for the
    accommodation of a great number of guests or else the house of the chief is used, temporarily, as
    a ceremonial house.
    • The ceremonial putting to death of a human victim is called paghuaya and is demanded by
    Bagobo custom on specific occasions, chief among which are the following:

    At the festival of Ginum, the offering of a human sacrifice was Anciently an integral part of the
    ceremony, though at present it is possible to substitute a fowl as the victim.

    1. The slave to be sacrificed at an approaching festival is selected some time in advance.


    2. On the last and main day of Grinum, shortly after sunrise, the
    Slave is taken to the forest, or to the beach if the village is not too far from the coast.
    3. At the place picked out for the ceremony, a frame — the takosan — is set up.
    4. The balabag is decorated from end to end with fresh young shoots from the areca palm.
    Directly in front of the middle patindog, a hole is dug in the ground, to which the slave’s body
    will finally be consigned; the pit is called kiithui).
    5. The slave is fastened to the middle post of the takosan, his hands uplifted, his wrists and
    ankles bound to the patindog

    After the death of a chieftain or other notable individual of the tribe, slaves are killed to provide
    attendants for the deceased in the country of the dead.

    • It is for the satisfaction of three of four deities, and not, as is commonly reported, for
    Mandarangan alone that a human victim is offered at Ginum. The worshipful meetings called
    manganito bring out the fact that the Bagobo consider both the god known as Tolus ka Balekat
    and the Malaki t’Olu k’Waig to be interested in the sacrifice of a man at this time.
    • Definite values are associated with the religious acts of Ginum:
    The gods are honored ; the demons are appeased ; diseases are cured; threatened sickness is
    averted; prosperity and increase of wealth are assured to the family giving the festival, and to all
    participants who share in the rites and who make gifts to the gods in the pre-scribed manner.

    • Datu Oleng said: “Tolus ka Balekat, I am making a Grinum this year for you. I have prepared
    eight areca-nuts and I Pray to you, while offering you the areca-nuts. Tolus ka Balekat, You
    demand a human victim this year, as in the years before when we celebrated the Ginum, but now
    we do not kill a man in sacrifice any more, because the Americans now hold control, and we are
    using a little American custom in giving you no human victim. Instead, we have killed a chicken,
    which we offer to you with the red rice.”

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