Bilong
Bilong is a ceremony which is celebrated to cure diseases of the lungs. The mambunong holds in one hand a piece of dried meat and says the following:
Wada, kano, da Ginsingan un Sūyan. Mansīda pay, kano, san tonodaisan adūe ya mayaganda Ginsingan ya si Sūyan. Amuida pay, kano, yan pinoda san ūsay takbada si patok yan pinoda san ūsay takbada san inapoi. Somaada pay, kano, yan manbidbidbidang ut san ūsay batang. Ingayon kinwanina ut, kano, un, “Manototo ut sīna ta manganta.”
Omada ut, kano, isan patok ud idawista apoi. Kanuttut, kano, adī makaoto san apoi ay manbidbidang. Amui dapag pay, kano, gogoabna, yan tomagoda ut sīa nangidawisan isan panganda ay patok ut dagos naoto.
Makakanda pay, kano, yan somaada ud baboida. Manokda dūandan mantogas eda. Anapūnda pay, kano, yan bilong. Ingayan kinwanina, kano, un, “Payun tako’s nan ipūgau ta mo waday nankios bakun ya mantogpasda, ya daita di poon di sapon di bilong.”
There were Ginsingan and Suyan. A person celebrating a ceremony and his relatives far away invited Ginsingan and Suyan. When they went one basket of meat fell, and one basket of cooked rice fell. While they were on the way home, there was one tree blazing. Then they said, “Let us cook and eat here.”
They took the piece of meat and roasted it on the fire. They could not cook it on the blazing fire. They went below a little distance and roasted their food, the meat, and it cooked easily.
When they had eaten they went home. They were coughing and spitting blood. Then they discovered the bilong. Then they said, “We will hand it down to the people so that if they have sickness or spit blood, we shall be called and shall be the origin of the prayer of bilong.”