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Federico Caballero (December 25, 1935 – August 17, 2024) was a Filipino chanter of Philippine epic poetry. Caballero was a recipient of the National Living Treasures Award . Early life
Magos started her work on the Sugidanon (to tell), the epics of Panay in 1992 through a grant from the French government. She first recorded two epics from a shaman chanter named Anggoran (Christian name Preciosa “Susa” Caballero). In 1994, she further studied the extent of epic dissemination in Central Panay and discovered a total of 10 epics.
Monsala (Subenen) – flying scarves recorded in the Sondayo epic. At least three scarves appear in the epic, one of which was used by Sondayo, the Subanen's main epic hero. [89] Mutya – small jewels that drop from the heart of banana trees during a full moon or during the midnight of Good Friday. They give its wielder powers such as strength ...
Hinilawod is a 29,000-verse epic that takes about three days to chant in its original form, making it one of the longest epics known, alongside that of Tibet's Epic of King Gesar. Hinilawod is one of the many pieces of oral literature passed from one generation to the next, changed and morphed by the chanter to one degree or another as he told ...
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, deities, and many other divine, semi-divine, and important figures from classical Philippine mythology and indigenous Philippine folk religions collectively referred to as Diwatas whose expansive stories span from a hundred years ago to presumably thousands of years from modern times.
Among the founders of the old communities in the uplands were the descendants of the families who fought the abusive Spanish colonizers in the settlements of Bugasong and Lawaan, Province of Antique, in the 16th Century (their colorful folklore and the oral tradition of their historical journeys became a part of the timeless epic, “Hinilawod”).
The Karay-a number 363,000 in 2010 . [1] They were first believed to be the descendants of immigrants from Borneo, through the epic-myth of the "Ten Bornean Datus".Recent findings, however, revealed that the ancestors of the Karay-a are the Austronesian-speaking immigrants who came from South China during the Iron Age.
A young Visayan noblewoman depicted in the Boxer Codex (1590). Binukot is a pre-Hispanic practice in the Philippine archipelago that is still practiced. A tribe or community deems a girl worthy of being secluded in order to protect them so they gain cultural prestige and are more appealing to high-class suitors.