Inawen

Offering to Inawen – Makes one serving

Ingredients

8.7 liters of blood
120 pieces long peppers
60 pieces red onions chopped
30 cups vinegar
30 cups water
20 heads of garlic, minced
20 dried bay leaves
1.2 kilos white sugar
1.35 kilos canola oil
9 kilos pork ears
4 kilos pig liver
4 kilos pork lungs
4 kilos pork intestines
30 cups cooked white rice

Instructions

In a large pot, heat oil and saute chopped garlic and onion until translucent.
Add in Pigs ears, liver, lungs and intestines. Saute until meat is brown and a fond forms. Add bayleaf and stir.
Pour in water. Constantly mix, making sure to scrap the fond and bring it to a boil.
Cook on low heat until meat is fork tender – around 3-4 hours.
Once meat is soft add in blood and cook for one more hour.
Pour vinegar and add sugar and long green pepper. Cook for 30 minutes.
Once fully cooked, stir in cooked white rice. (Very important!!! The offering will not work unless the rice and blood are combined.)
Serve the offering to Inawen and pray it satiates her.
Repeat recipe until spirit is full.

Written by Karl Gaverza
Copyright © Karl Gaverza

Inspired by the description of Inawen in The Tinguian / Abra / Itneg: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe, Fay-Cooper Cole, 1922

Inawen Illustration by Gromyko Semper

Gromyko Padilla Semper is an internationally renowned artist and Independent curator based in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, known his Intricate drawings and paintings that delves into contemporay visionary, symbolist, and surreal narratives. His works have been published in various publications, and collected by noteworthy art collectors,and in private galleries and museums.
Recently his works were sent by NASA to the Moon

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