Ampasit
The ampasit is a ceremony which is celebrated by the western Benguet Kankanay to cure sexually caused diseases. The mambunong holds in one hand a chicken which is to be sacrificed, and relates the following story:
Ud bayag waday īsa ifūgau ya asauwana waday īsay anakda babayī mangadan si Ampasit. Sinamingsan si Ampasit inmui nan si lokto. Sinkadona sinadan īsa anak Timūngau ay lalaki intabona di anak ay babayī Ampasit. Sinkatauwataun si ama’n Ampasit adi makaanop. Yatda un natui si Ampasit.
Sinisay agou sin inmoyan ama’n Ampasit ay manamus inilada si Ampasit ay imaylagui si abalug ay bato. Sin ama inyatna un, “Tola di inmoyarn?” “Inasauwak di Timūngau ay lalaki, ut intabona sakun sīna.” Inyagan amana sin buida ut nankañauda ut inayagana si Timūngau ya din kabaena.
Kakdinganda ay mangan, si Timūngau ya din kabaena sin naada. Si Timūngau binmayun, ut nangamag, abū, kañau. Inayagona si Ampasit ya si amana ya si īnana.
Sin inmayan Ampasit ya si amana ya si īnana sin kañau Timūngau, inmagyatda mosino di namolod si gūdū sin balayan tan adī di inīla angan ililauunda.
Si ama’n Ampasit nanmimi. Anmimianda din mata’n di asauwan Ampasit tan adīna inīla. Si Timūngau inyatna, “Adīmi pian ay makiasauwa sin anakmi ay lalaki din Ampasit tan angan mosin buuitako manmimianda din matatako. Sapoantabos da eda ta mansakītda ta adīka manmimi.”
Ta makabangon sin sakit, si ama’n Ampasit nangamag si kañau, ut say inamwan ifūgau di yatna ay maamay.
Long ago there were a man and his wife who had a daughter named Ampasit. One day Ampasit went to get camotes. While she was on the way, a son of Timungau hid the girl Ampasit. For a long time the father of Ampasit could not find her. He thought that Ampasit was dead.
One day when the parents of Ampasit had gone to bathe, they saw Ampasit standing on a large rock. Her father said to her, “Where have you been?” She said, “I married the son of Timungau, and he hid me here.” Her father called her to the house and gave a ceremony, and invited Timungau and his family.
After Timungau and his family had finished eating, they went home. Timungau was ashamed, and celebrated a ceremony also. He invited Ampasit and her father and her mother.
When Ampasit and her father and her mother went to the ceremony of Timungau, they wondered how the pigs in the yard were tied, because they did not see, although they were looking.
The father of Ampasit urinated. He urinated on the face of the husband of Ampasit, because he did not see him. Timungau said, “We do not wish to have Ampasit married to our son, because even at our own house they urinate on our faces. We will make them sick so that they can not urinate.”
So that they might get cured of the sickness, the father of Ampasit had a ceremony, and taught the people what to say in order to celebrate it.
The ampasit of the Kankanay is entirely different from the ceremony of the same name celebrated by the Nabaloi. The Kankanay ampasit corresponds in purpose to the Nabaloi basil. There is no similarity, however, in the spoken rituals of these two ceremonies.