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30/10/2024

Have you prepared the “sarukang” for the “dipunturong”?

As we commit to continue honoring our people’s traditions, let us share and remember some Iloko words that are associated with the approaching observance of the rituals especially dedicated to the departed.

Dipunturong pertains to the occasion of remembering, with special offerings, our deceased kinsfolk, and generally, the dead, relatives or not. While rituals for the dead and ancestral worship are indigenous, the term dipunturong (“dipunturom” to some) appears to have been adopted and locally modified from the Spanish word “difunto”, meaning “deceased” or “dead” person.

Preparations for the dipunturong are made several days or even a couple of weeks before November sets it. Particularly in mind are the food that solely or partly comprises the offering for the spirits, which is called the “atang”. While the provision of resources for the ritual may be easier for some, a number of families have to save for these even months before.

Like for other annual rituals, rice farming families reserve the “diket” (glutinous rice), and those with coconut trees set aside properly mature fruits, way ahead of time, while those who do not have these from their own produce simply purchase the items. This is because the “ninyogan” or “sinukat” (diket steamed with coconut cream), along with boiled eggs, are basic for the atang. Shaped like a dome and placed in a deep bowl that is usually made of coconut shell or ceramic, the whole egg-topped ninyogan may be laid out in pairs on the atang table inside the house, or placed in the funnel-shaped, split and woven bamboo basket pole sarukang that are implanted on a part of the yard. Among the Itneg (the closest ethnolinguistic kin of the Iloko), the “sarukang” is referred to as “salokang” or “saloko”, which is associated with various rituals as well as installed as a house for the spirit Kaiba-an.

For many Iloko families in the northern part of the Ilocos region, the atang for the dead during the November 1 and 2 observance is more intricate, with various recipes of glutinous rice prepared and laid out on the table in a very particular form that could symbolize the departed family members as well as Christ on the Cross. As practices vary across Iloko communities, items for the atang also differ. Beverages that may include alcoholic ones such as the sugarcane wine basi or an alternative, the favorite dishes of the deceased, and to***co, could also comprise the atang.

Equivalent to the Tagalog “undas”, the culturally blended observance of dipunturong on November 1 and 2 is evidently a result of the introduction of Catholicism that came with the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. Meanwhile, some communities at least in Ilocos Norte also performed the dipunturom on other occasions, particularly after the rice harvest, as thanksgiving to the ancestors who owned the land in the past.

The term dipunturong is now rarely used. The November feast is at present more commonly referred to as “Piesta iti Natay” (“Araw ng mga Patay” for the Tagalog), and sometimes as Todos los Santos. Interestingly, the latter Spanish reference is specifically the Dia de Todos los Santos (All Saints’ Day) on November 1, which is distinguished from the Dia de los Difuntos (All Souls’ Day) on November 2.





Text by M.L. I. Ingel I NMP-Ilocos
With gratitude to Jessie Bagcal and Maria Jesusa Imperio-Villaruz who provided additional information

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