I just experienced the weirdest ceremony in my entire life. 

This morning, around 6:30 in the morning, my mom woke me up. “Nikki, bangon na dyan! Dadating na si Noel, sabihin mo maghasa sya ng mga kutsilyo”. Well, I admit it, all our kitchen knives is very dull, it cant even cut an apple without messing up. I remembered that this is the ceremony day...  Remember the black rabbit on my previous post? Yeah. This day is the day that they’re going to offer the rabbit to the little people. T.T  

I really pity the poor rabbit… but I prefer a rabbit than a puppy.

Anyways, I got up at around 7am. I did the hygienic stuff in the morning, turned on my laptop and grabbed a cup of coffee downstairs. I checked my face book account and read the Hot Gimmick manga while waiting for my mom and Noel. Noel arrived at around 8am then I told him to sharpen the knives because he was appointed to murder the poor rabbit. 

After an hour my mom arrived with the family of Albularyos. They prepared the stuffs needed for the ceremony then told us that we have to be present in that ceremony. Great - just great. Damn it. 

The main albularyo, lets call her sister #1, grabbed the rabbit from the basket and gave it to sister #2. and I was like 'What the Fuck!' They’re going to kill the poor rabbit in front of us. so, we hurriedly find an excuse to get away from the living room - my brother excused himself to go in the bathroom since he just woke up and then I excused myself and go to my room. The good thing about having your room upstairs is you cant hear anything from downstairs... not even the nagging of my mom. So i didn't hear anything down or maybe the rabbit cant shriek ( i really dont know anything about rabbits). 

After a few minutes we got downstairs and was really surprised on what I saw. Sister #1&2 actually dressed up like Priests…actually more like of a pope because they have this colorful head dress just like the pope has. Well anyways,  before we began sister#2 instructed us to take off our slippers then kneel in front of the altar. (the altar consists of candles, the holy family figurine, holy cross, food, candies, liquors, soft drinks and a pitcher of water) o_O 

The ceremony started with a tagalog prayer of “Ave Maria” (Hail Mary) then afterwards sister #1 cited some prayer in Latin… at the start of the prayer, I was like “ooohhhh… she’s speaking in latin very fast.” after 10 minutes “What the heck - she’s praying so fast but it still isn’t  finished? How long is that prayer?” after 5 minutes or so “why is it too long?? arrgghhh my knees are giving up…” and after a few more minutes the prayer ended. “Yes! Time to stand up -” when suddenly sister # 1 started singing in Latin “Heck… there’s still more?” then, I looked up at my brother. He’s supporting himself by leaning his both hands on the floor. Yeah, I imitated him… somehow, it felt better than kneeling straight. and that was the time that i looked bottom straight of the altar. I almost threw up when I saw the rabbit  chopped into pieces. T.T the poor rabbit is dead. *sniffs*

The singing took around 10-15 minutes. And we are numb all over… this is the longest time of kneeling that I’ve done in my entire life.

After the prayer and the singing, the grossest thing happen. I was dumbfounded when I saw my mother kneel in front of sister #1 and draw a cross with some rabbit’s blood in her forehead. Then she turned onto me and said "o ikaw din... lahat tayo maggaganito"   Gawd. Freaking gross. so i kneel down and she did that thing to me.

After that we proceed in procession around the house, its more like a house blessing. so after the procession the ceremony ended and then we all ate breakfast.

Well even if it is weird and full of crap, I still believe in the mysteries of the unknown creatures..Oh. did I mention that I was always a victim of “nanuno & nabati” ? 

Till next time.

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