Like other places in the world, Pasilians has also their
traditional marriage which they called “ Palanus chi asawa”. The term palanus is a general or common term
to mark any very important celebration.
Palanus chi asawa refers to the celebration made to confirm the union of the
would- be husband and wife. Naturally this can happen to the contracted and
uncontracted marriage. This traditional marriage practices conveys the official
pronouncement to the community regarding the union of the newly married couple.
This practice is not yet the grand marriage celebration because this is only a
part of the practices being done to complete the stages of the union of the
future couple.
The process of this
traditional marriage begins at the girl’s side. The boy together with the elders
go to the place of the girl. At first
the girl and boy must talk and decide on what date do they want to do this
celebration and the girl will tell to her family then they will prepare for the
coming of their visitors. In some cases parents are not allowed to go in the
girl’s house for the celebration. The family of the girl will provides the pig
to be butchered. They will assign someone to call for the community to attend
the celebration. The animal to be butchered is only pig and it depends on the
social status of the families on how many pig they will butcher. If the family have no pig they will borrow from their relatives or go and buy to those who have pigs.
In this celebration they also have “kopyan chi lungus” where in the half of the
body towards head of the pig is set aside to be delivered to the boy’s house
which is then called kopyan chi lungus and then the half will be cooked to be
served by the people who are there to witness the ceremony. This lungus which is sent to the boy’s house
will show that the ceremony is accomplished. In this traditional marriage
celebration ,they had program where in they do talks especially those elders
and some leaders that will give advice to the future couple; they also perform
native dances, sing native songs and others. In some cases they don’t have
program. The relatives and families of the girl will decide if they will have
program. Most of the traditional marriage I heard has its program because it is
the way they will show love and hospitality to their visitors.
During the program we can observe how the people cooperate.
In the butchering of the pig other will volunteer to do. Some who will go and
attend will bring rice and some will voluntarily gave money. This shows that the community are very
supportive with each other . Everybody will enjoy the program and its in the
decision of the people if they continue to have the program when everybody is
finished eating.
Another part of this
traditional marriage is the girl together with the elders, some of her
relatives and those who want to go to do the ‘subrat chi palanus’ which means
they will go to the boy’s house then do the same ceremony. The time and date of going to the boy’s house
depends on the decision of the girl and her families. They will be the one to
set the date. If the traditional marriage celebration is done the boyfriend and
girlfriend are now a couple.
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