region 4
REGION IV- BELIEFS and STORIES:
FOLKLORE:
The Maragtas epic, an imaginative nineteenth-century reworking of Panay folk memories, tells of the migration to the Philippines in AD 1250 of the Bornean datus (chiefs) Puti, Sumakwel, Bangkaya, Balakasusa, Paiburong, Dumangsil, Lubay, and Dumalogdog. They had led their followers there to escape the tyranny of the Srivijayan empire. The datus bought the coastal lands of Panay from the indigenous (native) people with gold, pearls, and other ornaments (the native people moved inland).
STORIES:
The Story of the First Durian (The Hermit’s Three Wishes)
HINILAWOD
Si Amomongo at si Iput-Iput (Ang gorilla at ang alapaap)
The Datto Somacuel
Panaghoy Sang Ginahandos Nga Palpal
BELIEFS:
Among the Hiligaynon, a pre-Christian belief system coexists with the Catholic one brought by the Spaniards. The two exert mutual influence on each other, as when the Santo Niño, the image of the Child Jesus as World Sovereign, is bathed to summon rain or attract good luck. The native beliefs divide the universe into three parts: the upperworld, middleworld, and lowerworld. The upperworld houses at its peak the udtohanon , which is God and his favorite angels who will pass the final judgment but are otherwise remote from human affairs. Lower down in the upperworld reside the langitnon, angelic beings who live above the clouds. In the awan-awan(between the clouds and the earth but still in the upper-world) live the spirits of the wind, rain, thunder, lightning, typhoons, and whirlwinds; supreme among them is the tagurising who lives where the sun rises. The middleworld (the earth) is the home to the dutan-on, spirits expelled from the upper-world for rebelling against God; they are identified according to where they first landed, for example, in trees, the river, or the sea. The underworld includes hell, in front of whose gate is a hollow pit where the engkanto, the malevolent (evil) spirits, live with their reptilian pets; the underworld
FOLKLORE:
The Maragtas epic, an imaginative nineteenth-century reworking of Panay folk memories, tells of the migration to the Philippines in AD 1250 of the Bornean datus (chiefs) Puti, Sumakwel, Bangkaya, Balakasusa, Paiburong, Dumangsil, Lubay, and Dumalogdog. They had led their followers there to escape the tyranny of the Srivijayan empire. The datus bought the coastal lands of Panay from the indigenous (native) people with gold, pearls, and other ornaments (the native people moved inland).
STORIES:
The Story of the First Durian (The Hermit’s Three Wishes)
HINILAWOD
Si Amomongo at si Iput-Iput (Ang gorilla at ang alapaap)
The Datto Somacuel
Panaghoy Sang Ginahandos Nga Palpal
BELIEFS:
Among the Hiligaynon, a pre-Christian belief system coexists with the Catholic one brought by the Spaniards. The two exert mutual influence on each other, as when the Santo Niño, the image of the Child Jesus as World Sovereign, is bathed to summon rain or attract good luck. The native beliefs divide the universe into three parts: the upperworld, middleworld, and lowerworld. The upperworld houses at its peak the udtohanon , which is God and his favorite angels who will pass the final judgment but are otherwise remote from human affairs. Lower down in the upperworld reside the langitnon, angelic beings who live above the clouds. In the awan-awan(between the clouds and the earth but still in the upper-world) live the spirits of the wind, rain, thunder, lightning, typhoons, and whirlwinds; supreme among them is the tagurising who lives where the sun rises. The middleworld (the earth) is the home to the dutan-on, spirits expelled from the upper-world for rebelling against God; they are identified according to where they first landed, for example, in trees, the river, or the sea. The underworld includes hell, in front of whose gate is a hollow pit where the engkanto, the malevolent (evil) spirits, live with their reptilian pets; the underworld