Atang (food offering)

An atang is a traditional food offering in the Philippines to ward off evil spirits. The most common atang to ward off sickness is a rice cake called sinukat.^[1][2] A table with an atang meal may be put in a new house.^[3] An atang may also be for a harvest offering.^[4] Ilocanos may prepare an atang before each meal.^[5] The atang may also be called a "santorum" or "panang".^[6] The atang meal may be associated in some ceremonies with dance.^[7]

References

1. Cordero-Fernando, Gilda; Baldemor, Manuel D. (1992). "Philippine Food & Life: Luzon". When spirits have to be remembered on their special day, or placated because they have made someone ill, an atang or offering is made. The most common atang for illness is a rice cake called sinukat. It is put in a coconut shell and ...
2. Ramos, Maximo (1934). "Holiday In Black". Philippine Magazine. 31: 473. Ka Mimai has made pinekkel, while tall Ka Gunda, wife of my cousin Iniong, called Gunding before she was wed, has cooked sinukat. Before letting anybody taste her sinukat Ka Gunda fills a plate with the cake.
3. Virgil Mayor Apostol (2010). "Way of the Ancient Healer: Sacred Teachings from the Philippines": 22. This is a practice that has its roots in the ancient custom of constructing a home that includes an atang made before, during, ... An atang set for the one-year death anniversary of engineer and Arnis master Eduardo Vintayen. ...
4. Philippine Journal of Education. 1974. Occasionally, after harvest time, she could be seen offering an "atang" (food: rice and native cakes) in a corner of her rice field chanting her thanks to the "anitos" and "encantos" for the good harvest and praying for a better harvest ... Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. Jocano, F. Landa; Edrozo, Arnora (1982). "The Ilocanos: an ethnography of family and community life in the ...". University of the Philippines. Asian Center. The family also makes an atang (food offering) before each meal. No one eats before this is otherwise, a member of the household or any guest for that matter will have deformed mouth, lockjaw, or stomachache. Only when the spirits are ...
6. Duque, Venancio S. (February 1937). "Santorum". Philippine Magazine. 32 (2): 75. JSTOR 1177391. Santorum is a name given to a certain weird and mystic ceremony performed by native medicos in northern Luzon and in the central provinces to cure those who are said to be suffering from ailments wrought by the spirits.
   A santorum, sometimes called a pañang, was performed for the treatment of one of the writer's acquaintances after the attending physician had given up all hope for his recovery.
7. "Studies in Philippine linguistics:". Linguistic Society of the Philippines: Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1988. The only type of dance ever mentioned by the people is the atang. (An atang was put on once for our benefit ... Now that feuds more and more are settled peacefully, at least near the coast, an atang is sometimes staged by a single ...