![]() These form the bulk of the Philippines’ rich heritage of folk songs. Folk songs that can be sub-classified into those that tell a story (folk ballads) are a relative rarity in Philippine folk literature. Folk speech includes the bugtong (riddle) and the salawikain (proverbs). Folk narratives can either be in prose: the myth, the alamat (legend), and the kuwentong bayan (folktale), or in verse, as in the case of the folk epic. University of the Philippines Professor, Damiana Eugenio, classified Philippines Folk Literature into three major groups: folk narratives, folk speech, and folk songs. ![]() To point out that folklore in a written form can still be considered folklore, Utely pointed out that folklore “may appear in print, but must not freeze into print.” It should be pointed out that all the examples of folk literature cited in this article are taken from print, rather than oral sources. While the oral and thus changeable aspect of folk literature is an important defining characteristic, much of this oral tradition had been written into a print format. Each unique ethnic group has its own stories and myths to tell. For our ancestors, the relevance of stars doesn’t end in mythical and spiritual purposes, but transcended into their. This refers to a wide range of material due to the ethnic mix of the Philippines. Unknown to many, Astronomy was widely practiced during the pre-colonial times in the Philippines, wherein most of our ancestor depended on nature as their indicator for the right moment to conduct their rituals and activities. There have been proposals to revitalize the indigenous Philippine folk religions and make them the national religion of the country during the First Philippine Republic, but the proposal did not prosper, as the focus at the time was the war against Spanish and, later, American colonizers.Philippine Mythology is derived from Philippine folk literature, which is the traditional oral literature of the Filipino people. These perceptions of existence towards gods, goddesses, deities, and spirits in the sacred native Filipino religions, is the same way how Christians perceive the existence of their god they refer as God and the same way Muslims perceive the existence of their god they refer as Allah. ![]() Deity, spirit, and hero figures continue to be viewed as important and existing among native faiths and the general Filipino culture. Philippine folk literature Philippine folk literature refers to the traditional oral literature of the Filipino people. This contact between native and foreign faiths later accumulated more stories, which also became part of both faiths, with some alterations. The following figures continue to exist and prevail among the collective memory and culture of Filipinos today, especially among adherents to the native and sacred Filipino religions, despite centuries of persecution beginning with the introduction of non-native and colonial Abrahamic religions which sought to abolish all native faiths in the archipelago beginning in the late 14th century, and intensified during the middle of the 16th century to the late 20th century. The term itself can be further divided into ninuno (ancestral spirits) and diwata (gods, goddesses, and deities), although in many cases, the meaning of the terms differ depending on their ethnic association. Each ethnic group has their own general term used to refer to all deities or a sub-set of deities, of which the most widespread term among the ethnic groups in the country is anito. ![]() Some ethnic groups have pantheons ruled by a supreme deity (or deities), while others revere ancestor spirits and/or the spirits of the natural world, where there is a chief deity but consider no deity supreme among their divinities. There are over a hundred distinct pantheons in the Philippines. The diversity in these important figures is exhibited in many cases, of which a prime example is the Ifugao pantheon, where in a single pantheon, deities alone are calculated to number at least 1,500. Central Philippines, and, therefore, might. Some deities of ethnic groups have similar names or associations, but remain distinct from one another. Secondly, its major generalizations are based only on my research findings on the folklore of Capiz, a province in. Each ethnic group has their own distinct pantheon of deities. The mythological figures, including deities ( anitos and diwatas), heroes, and other important figures, in Anitism vary among the many ethnic groups in the Philippines. Folk epics are long heroic narratives in verse which recount the adventures of tribal heroes and in the process. Kapres are also said to have a very strong body odour and to sit in tree branches to smoke. See also: Indigenous Philippine folk religions and Philippine mythology In Philippine mythology, the kapre is a creature that may be described as a tree giant, being a tall (79 ft (2.12.7 m)), dark-coloured, hairy, and muscular creature.
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