Main Bansa Iban (Semina kenang utai ti ditulis aki kelia)

   Main Bansa Iban (Semina kenang utai ti ditulis aki Lionel Bediman kelia)

  Nyadi semua iban ti lelaki kenyau ari sida  agi mit endang bisi main enggau uti, bansa ti dikerja sida leboh lelaki agi biak. Lepasnya sida tu sula-ula, sida lalu nemu enggau orang ti besai tuai bepangka, kayu di ambi sida ka pangkanya kayu malam, bait, Sanjan, Engurutak, Mengris, Kempas, Pinang, Rambai Tapang. Maya sida bepangka nya lebih agi ka buah orang bepangka nya lebih agi enti maya nibang, laban ngayu ka kayu jampat agi rebah di tebang.

Lepas ti main bepangka, iya nya endang uti besai bansa iban, nya nyabong manok. Nyadi penatai rindu ka main tu laban nunda uti di pangkal Raja Macham ti belaban nyabong enggau Ambong Mungan enggau Ensing Jara, ke nyabong ngelaban sebayan. Nambah ka nya, sida nunda ka uti sida Keling sida Sengalang Burong ti belaban nyabong, ngelaban Apai Sabit- Bekait.

    Semua Antu ti belaban nyabong tu bemanok ka mensia magang, lalu laban mensia jadi ka manok sabong antu. Nya kebuah mensia bisi bulu, baka bulu manok ka disabong mensia ngelaban diri sama diri mensia. ari tegal tu, nya kabuah samoa macham bulu manok di temu iban samoa, laban sida endang bisi penemu nya datai ari pengarap asal iban empu.

    Nyadi Maya iban nyabong nya maia nebas ngagai kejang  deka nunu, sabong sida tu kalia, bebuti, ti di kumbai orang sabong taun. Laban nunda uti main lalu laban sabong tu nunda uti main antu. Nya alai agi kalia enti malam orang deka nyabong, orang ka tuai sabong ngasoh Lemambang dua iko besaut- saut  beranong ngangau ka renong kayau nyebut sida  Keling, Sida Bungai Nuing, ti ngayau ngelaban apai Sabit- Bekait.

    lalu pia mega laban kayau sabaka enggau Sabong, nya enti iban deka nurun ngayau, tuai kayau ngasoh Lembambang berenong ngagangau ka renong sabong nunda sida Ensing Jara, ti ngelaban sida Ngerai Sida Niram ari sebayan. Leboh orang ngangau ka renong sabong tauka renong kayau Piring Anding, enda tau enda bisi di sedia, laban nama antu ti datai enggau nyabong tauka ngayau abis magang kena sebut leka main.

(Tau nyadi di peda, tau segenda Antu datai, madah ka enggau nyabong tauka ngayau.)

    Nambah ka nya asal main dua bengkah nya tadi maioh main bukai mega, ti di kerja sida kena ngelantang ka ati diri diau begulai dalam rumah panjai, sida tiap ari begendang  panjai enti rumah enda ngulit, awak ka ti landik bemain, baka sida ti penikar tau bepencha, bekuntau, main chekak, main kerichap, main pirin, main Perisi, enggau ngajat. Nyadi Ajat tu bisi dua tiga macham ajat, main enggau bisi ajat kena bebunoh, nambah ka iya ti endang main ari ninting lemai. Main tu deka bendar di main orang leboh nembu ka gawai enggau leboh bansa iban rami bergempuru.

    Nyadi laban nunda pengrami rumah sida Keling di Panggau Libau, enggau rumah sida Tutong di Gelong, nya kebuah rumah panjai, enggai sekali di wan, enti iya enda di lagu enggau gendang, enggau taboh, kena orang bemain ti di sebut nya tadi, pia mega baka gendang bukai, anembiak Iban enda tau enda belajar, laban rumah panjai enda megai adat tuai, baka niri ka maioh macham gawai ti beguna ka gendang rayah, gendang kena ngalu antu, leboh gawai antu enggau nempap kelebong, ma gawai Burong, enggau dikena ngelalu Menjaya Raja Manang, leboh begawai ka orang ti sakit, enggau manang bisi bebangun tauka bisi belian besai, samoa macham main, enggau penemu asal begendang enggau betaboh  tu endang pesaka besai di kembuan orang ti diau di rumah panjai, kena sida megai enggau ngingat ka adat aal bansa sida, enti orang diau begulai di rumah panjai enda ngingat  ka utai tu, bansa sida tu tau bendar ngemalu bansa ka dudi ari ila. Laban adat banda, udah dilengka ka ari tegal pemeli, pengelap rumbau ti muai iya.( Enti nuan Iban, anang muai adat tu.)

Jako tu disalin nitih ka bup asal tuai ti agi disimpan Ex TR Mark Luna Ak Sandah.

Translated using google translate

Iban Games (Only memories of what our ancestors wrote)

       So all Iban men since they were young have played with games, the kind of thing they do when they are young. After that, they found out that the elders were playing hit wood , the types of wood they took for the games is kayu malam, bait, Sanjan, Engurutak, Mengris, Kempas, Pinang, Rambai Tapang. When they down the fruit, they cut down the wood, especially when cutting down, because it makes the trees fall faster when cut down.

After the game of bepangka( hit wood), which is the main games of the Iban, it is cock fighting. The reason for the love of this game is to imitate the games at the base of Raja Macham who fought against Ambong Mungan and Ensing Jara, who fought against the sebayan (hades). In addition, they followed the example of Keling and Sengalang Burong who fought against Apai Sabit-Bekait.

    All the ghosts who are fighting for breeding are all humans, and because humans become the ghosts' nestling chickens. That's why humans have "feathers", like the feathers of chickens that humans fight against each other. For this reason, that is why all kinds of chicken "feathers" are known to the Iban, because they have the knowledge that comes from the traditional beliefs of the Iban themselves.

So when the Iban nyabong (cock figthing competitions) is the time to cut to the work of burning the weeding the garden, sabong is old time  games, which is called sabong taon (Yearly Cock fighting). Because it imitates the game and because sabong is imitating the game of ghosts. In the past, when the night was about to be fighting, the leader of the fighting would ask two Lemambangs(callers) to answer and call out to the Keling and Bungai Nuing, who were fighting against Sabit-Bekait's father.

    and also because the war is similar to Sabong, that if the Iban want to go hunting, the chief of the war asked Lembambang berenong call the prayer for sabong (figthing) imitate the Ensing Jara, who fought them Ngerai and Niram from the sebayan(Hades). When people call for renong sabong (fight) or renong kayau(wars)  they need to offer Piring Anding, the iIbsn offering must be prepared, because the names of the ghosts who come with  fighting or war are all mentioned.

(It can be seen, it can be ghost come, called to join fithing or wars.)

    In addition, the original two games are many other games, which they do to entertain themselves living together in the village, they every day drumming long if the house is not ngulit (mourning), so that those who are skilled in playing, such as those who are skilled can bepencha(iban martials art) , bekuntau, play chekak, play kerichap, play pirin, play Perisi, and ngajat. So Ajat( dance) has two or three kinds of ajat, played and there are ajat to kill ( Ngajat bebunoh), in addition to the one that is played every evening. This game will be played at the end of the gawai and when the Iban gather.

    Therefore, because of the celebration of the house of Keling in Panggau Libau, and the house of Tutong in Gelong, that is why the village, not guarded , if it is not in songs and drums, and taboh, for people to play the above, as well as other drums, Iban children must learn, because the village does not hold old customs, antu(ghost), when the ghost festival and knocking kelebong, gawai Burong festival, and to welcome Menjaya Raja Manang, when the festival of the sick, and manang have ordained or big belian, all kinds of games, and traditional ideas drumming and iban orchestra and style of music, is a great heritage in the village. Their people can be a shame to the future generations, if  the custom, has been abandoned because of the stupidity,  if they start not serious about it. (If you are Iban, do not remove this custom.)

This is translated from the original book kept by Ex TR Mark Luna Ak Sandah