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Philippine epic poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centuries before the Spaniards came, the Filipinos already had their own cultural traditions, folklore, mythologies and epics. There were substantial writings by early natives that Jesuit historian Fr...
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List of world folk-epics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World folk-epics are those epics which are not just literary masterpieces but also an integral part of the weltanschauung of a people. They were originally oral literatures, which were later written ...
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It was this image that I brought with me to the various libraries I had visited in connection with De La Salle University’s long-range research project on the Literary History of the Philippines. Last May, ... Kinaadman,[2] I read some of the tribal epics of Mindanao gathered by various anthropologists. In many accounts,
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Mindanao Philippine Epics ... The people of Mindanao had rich literature that existed only in their minds and memories. Only recently were these Philippine epics put in writing, so these can be studied by the public. Locally called "Darangan", ... ; Return from Philippine Epics to Cebu-Philippines Home page »...
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The Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was replaced by the Office of the Commissioner for Mindanao and Sulu, ... canonical, where Muslims are allowed to practise their faith in a non-Islamic country like the Philippines; ... The folk tradition comprises the tudtul, (folktales), and the epics Raja Indarapatra, Darangen,
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These people have also been called "Moros," a term applied to Muslims in the southern Philippines in general. The language of these people is ... The Islamic religion is well entrenched in Mindanao society and this maybe gleaned from the presence of the mosque in every village. This is also readily seen in their customs.
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The epics are arranged in geographic order from north to south, starting with Lam-ang (Northern Luzon), then to Labaw Donggon (Visayas), and on to Mindanao, where the greatest number of our fol epics com from (Tuwaang, Agyu, Bantugan, etc.). A distinctive feature of Philippine epic literature is that while...
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