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Gayang: Igorot Folklore Goes to the Comic Book

Move over Darna, Captain Barbell and Dyesebel – no disrespect to your creator, the legendary Mars Ravelo. Here come Lampong, Pili, Inlablabbuut and others. The latter have come alive in a new comic book collaboration by young artists from the Cordilleras.

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Published at 2019-07-18 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Books, Folklore, Igorot, creatures, story, students

Text to Textile

To kick off Filipino American History Month and U.N. /Philippines Indigenous Month, San Francisco’s Asian American Museum held a premiere of Mountain Spirits: Textiles and Folk Arts of Cordillera and Ilokos, the signal documentary of The Hinabi Project's third exhibit on Philippine textile arts.

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Published at 2018-10-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Culture, Documentary, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Cordillera, Folklore, Textile

Philippine Folktales: the Story of Dumalawi

The story of Dumalawi is a folktale from the Tinguan people of the Philippines collected by Mabel Cook Cole in her book Philippine Folk Tales published in 1916. According to Cook the major characters in Tinguian mythology are often representative of heroes of times gone by whose exploits have become exaggerated and embellished by continued telling from generation to generation from the people of the “first times”. Cook says, these people of “the first times” practiced magic.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Mythology & folklore

Tags: Folklore, story

The Tikbalang in Philippine Folklore: A Shapeshifting Trickster

In Philippine folklore, a tikbalang is a bizarre, shape-shifting, trickster spirit that haunts certain places in the wildlands of the country. It is said to be a tall humanoid creature that dwells in the forests and mountains of the Philippines and often described as a reverse form of a centaur. Where the centaur has the body of a horse and the torso and head of a man, the tikbalang has the head of a horse and the body of a human.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Mythology & folklore

Tags: Folklore, Tikbalang

Philippine Folklore: Maria Makiling of Mount Makiling

As is often the case in many parts of the Philippines and around the world, mountains and volcanoes became associated with legends, myths and ancient traditions and Mount Makiling is strongly associated with a mythical female entity named Maria Makiling. She is also known as Mariang Makiling and is considered to be a spirit or forest nymph known as a diwata or lambana in Philippine folklore.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Mythology & folklore

Tags: Folklore, Makiling

Philippine Folktales and Legends: Catalina of Dumaguete

Dumaguete is the capital town of the province of Negros Oriental in the Philippines. Like most great cities, Dumaguete has a long history and there are many myths and legends from its early days that have helped to create its culture and character. Dumaguete is also known as the City of the Gentle People, although it is uncertain why, but the people who live there are renowned for their friendliness making it a popular tourist destination.

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Published at 2018-02-18 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Dumaguete, Folklore, legends

5 Well-Loved Philippine Folk Tales Young Kids Will Enjoy

It is a shame, therefore, that our children are more familiar withthe tales of the Western world. Mother Goose rhymes are sung and read from the time babies are in the womb, and fairy tales are told and retold in the early years. And why not? These are much more accessible than our own people’s stories that are usually found in uninspiring and antiquated anthologies.

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Published at 2018-02-18 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Mythology & folklore

Tags: Books, Folklore, Kids

The Legend of the Pineapple: A Filipino Folk Tale

Once upon a time, there was a woman who lived with her daughter Pina in a tiny hut in the village. They were poor, and the mother worked day and night to make both ends meet. No matter how hard she worked, though, she never got any help from her daughter. Pina was a lazy, spoiled kid who liked to play in the backyard all day. Whenever her mother asked for help around the house or tried to send her on an errand, she would always find an excuse by saying she can’t find the object that was ...

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Published at 2018-02-18 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Mythology & folklore

Tags: Folklore, Pineapple, legends

The Heartbreaking Story of Alitaptap: A Bataan Legend

The Philippines has seen many transformations in their folklore and myth. At the beginning of the 20th century, many poets and authors began taking traditional folklore and characters and turning them into beautiful fairy tales – which would be more commonly known in Philippine literature as “legends”.

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Published at 2018-01-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Fairytale, Folklore, legends

The Monkey and the Turtle / Ilokano Folk Tale

“This tale told by the Ilocano is well known among both the Christianized and the wild tribes, of the Philippines, and also in Borneo and Java. However, the Ilocano is the only version so far as I known, which has the explanatory element: the reason is given here why monkeys do not eat meat. The turtle is accredited with extraordinary sagacity and cunning. It is another example of the type of tale showing the victory of the weak and cunning over the strong but stupid. ”

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Published at 2018-01-28 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Folklore, turtle

The Thalon, A Subanon Myth

The Thalon is an obscure creature in Philippine Folklore. From its origins in Zamboanga Del Sur, its myth has not spread to the other parts of the Philippines. Unlike most monsters in Philippine folklore, the attitude of the Thalon is based on its gender, either being a simple trickster spirit if male, or a terrible man-eating beast if female.

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Published at 2018-01-26 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary, Mythology & folklore

Tags: Folklore, Mythology, Spirits

Folk Traditions

The International Folk Music Council defined folk music as “the product of a musical tradition that has been evolved through the process of oral transmission.” The term is thus applied to the musical repertory of communities as opposed to art music or music composed by trained musicians. It is also applied to music composed by an individual but which has been absorbed into the unwritten living tradition of the community.

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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary

Tags: Folklore, Tradition, music

Filipino Building Beliefs

The experienced Filipino architect is familiar with the common folk beliefs and usually follows them or applies these age-old guidelines in the planning of one’s dream house. Many of these beliefs are based on sound planning practices that do not have to be overly emphasized. Like, for example, orienting the building to take in the healthful effects of the rays of the morning sun by having wide windows facing the rising sun to take in the cleansing rays of sunlight during daybreak.

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Published at 2017-12-26 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary, Society

Tags: Folklore, beliefs