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Inscription. 2008 (originally proclaimed in 2005) (3rd session) List. Representative. Darangen is a Maranao epic poem from the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao, Philippines. It consists of 17 cycles with 72,000 lines in iambic tetrameter or catalectic trochaic tetrameter. [1] Each cycle pertains to a different self-contained story.
Singkil is an ethnic dance of the Philippines that has its origins in the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, a Mindanao Muslim ethnolinguistic group. The dance is widely recognized today as the royal dance of a prince and a princess weaving in and out of crisscrossed bamboo poles clapped in syncopated rhythm. While the man manipulates a sword and ...
[4] Singkil: Lanao Maranao Singkil is a Filipino dance that narrates the epic legend of “Darangan” of the Maranao people of Mindanao. This 14th century epic is about Princess Gandingan getting trapped in the forest during an earthquake that was said to have been caused by the forest nymphs or fairies called diwatas.
The Maranao people (Maranao: Bangsa Mëranaw; Filipino: Taong Maranaw[2][3]), also spelled Mranaw, Muranaw, Maranaw, and Mëranaw and recognized also as the Iranaon or the Iranaoans, is a predominantly Muslim Filipino ethnic group native to the region around Lanao Lake in the island of Mindanao.
The Maharadia Lawana (sometimes spelled Maharadya Lawana or Maharaja Rāvaṇa) is a Maranao epic which tells a local version of the Indian epic Ramayana. [1] Its English translation is attributed to Filipino Indologist Juan R. Francisco, assisted by Maranao scholar Nagasura Madale, based on Francisco's ethnographic research in the Lake Lanao area in the late 1960s.
This prompted the proclamation of the Hudhud chant of the Ifugao [4] in 2001 and Darangen epic chant of the Maranao [5] in 2005. After the establishment of the 2003 Convention, all entries to the Proclamation of Masterpieces were incorporated in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity [ 6 ] in 2008.
Philippine epic poetry is the body of epic poetry in Philippine literature. Filipino epic poetry is considered to be the highest point of development for Philippine folk literature, encompassing narratives that recount the adventures of tribal heroes. These epics are transmitted through oral tradition using a select group of singers and ...
Sepha Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai epic about the adventures of Khun Phaen, a Siamese folk hero. Klei khan Y Dam San, an epic of Rade people in Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên), Vietnam. Đẻ đất đẻ nước, an epic of Mường people in Northern Vietnam. Hikayat Hang Tuah, a Malaccan, and Malay epic. Bidasari, a Malay epic.