Cañao
cañao kanyaw festival ceremony indigenous mountain people northern luzon philippine socioreligious ritual chicken pig andor carabao butchered sacrifice feasted usually thanksgiving god kabunyan indigenous mountain people believe existence supernatural being call anito power man use prayer material offering ritual people belief win favor spirit festival ancient tradition celebrated long spain reached philippine today igorots filipino igorot ancestry still practice traditional feast wherever grand cañao celebrated igorot people cordilleras yearly different kind ritual cañao ritual illness good harvest progress festival liturgy offering animal offered thanksgiving marriage healing birth burial voyage prayer offered dancing ritual also practice twoperson man woman dance circular step hopping skipping tempo stick gong group dance performed two line men woman separated opposite direction moving towards forming circle woman dance inner circle men dance outer circle moving opposite direction tapuy rice wine served feast aside meal cañao complete without animal sacrifice goat chicken carabao pig commonly used large animal killed chopped piece boiled water little spice called watwat commonly pig used chicken cooked pinikpikan