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    Long before Spanish colonization, the Philippines had its own established literature as seen through folk stories, plays, songs, and alphabets that were distinct from those introduced by colonizers. This early literature reflected Filipino customs, traditions, beliefs, and attempts to understand the world. However, many of these early written and oral works were later destroyed or lost as materials perished over time. While some works were preserved through compilation efforts, many themes remain uncollected from the memories of the people.

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    Long before Spanish colonization, the Philippines had its own established literature as seen through folk stories, plays, songs, and alphabets that were distinct from those introduced by colonizers. This early literature reflected Filipino customs, traditions, beliefs, and attempts to understand the world. However, many of these early written and oral works were later destroyed or lost as materials perished over time. While some works were preserved through compilation efforts, many themes remain uncollected from the memories of the people.

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    Long before Spanish colonization, the Philippines had its own established literature as seen through folk stories, plays, songs, and alphabets that were distinct from those introduced by colonizers. This early literature reflected Filipino customs, traditions, beliefs, and attempts to understand the world. However, many of these early written and oral works were later destroyed or lost as materials perished over time. While some works were preserved through compilation efforts, many themes remain uncollected from the memories of the people.

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    Pre-Spanish Period

    Historical Background
    Long before the Spaniards and other foreigners landed or set foot on
    Philippine shores, our forefathers already had their own literature
    stamped in the history of our race.
    Our ancient literature shows our customs and traditions in everyday life
    as traced in our folk stories, old plays and short stories.
    Our ancestors also had their own alphabet which was different from
    that brought by the Spaniards. The first alphabet used by our ancestor
    was similar to that of the Malayo-Polynesian alphabet.
    Why certain things existed in their physical environment must have
    intrigued the ancient Filipinos as it did other early peoples. In their effort
    to define their world, to account for the realities in it, and to explain their
    feelings, beliefs, and judgments, they made up interesting narratives.
    These have come down to us in the form of origin myths, legends, fables,
    tales of the supernatural, and humorous accounts about some trickster,
    like Pusong or Pilandok, or some bungling character who got by in spite of
    or because of his lack of wit.
    And there were also metrical accounts of native Filipino gods and
    their deeds. Songs and verses filled early religious practices: to express
    devotion, to atone for sins, to minister to the sick, and to bury the
    dead.Verses were composed also to pray for abundance and happiness: in
    the home, on the farm, on the sea, and elsewhere. In like manner, verses
    aired love for and loyalty to the barangay and its rulers. These were
    supplemented by accounts of battle (kudanag), songs of victory
    (tagumpay, talindad), songs of hanging a captured enemy (sambotan,
    tagulaylay), and songs expressive of manliness. From the peoples social
    life evolved.
    But whatever records our ancestors left were either burned by the
    Spanish friars in the belief that they were works of the devil or were
    written on materials that easily perished, like the barks of trees, dried
    leaves and bamboo cylinders which could not have remained undestroyed
    even if efforts were made to preserve them.
    Other records that remained showed folk songs that proved the
    existence of a native culture truly our own. Some of these were passed on
    by word of mouth until they reached the hands of some publishers or
    printers who took interest in printing the manuscripts of the ancient
    Filipinos.
    Although attempts have been made to compile these folk narratives by
    such collectors as Fr. Jose Ma. Pavon (Las antiguas leyendas de la isla de
    Negros) during the Spanish period Fay-Cooper Cole (Traditions of the
    Tinguian, 1915), Mable Cook Cole (Philippine Folk Tales, 1916), and Dean
    S. Fansler (Filipino Popular Tales, 1921) during the early part of the
    American regime, and some Filipino and American anthropologists and
    folklorists in more recent times, many of the theme still remain in the
    memory of the folk, uncollected and unwritten.

    Mythology is an interwoven series of myths told by a given race.


    The word also means the study of myths in general.
    Classifications of Mythology:
    1) Myth: an account of the deeds of a god or of a supernatural being; a
    kind of imaginative precursor of scientific investigation.
    Are permanent, they deal with the greatest of all problems the
    problems which do not change because men and women do not change.
    They deal with love (the romantic element), war, sin, tyranny, courage,
    and faith; all in the same way in relation to man.
    2) Legend: a widely-accepted but unverified story of the origin of things,
    persons or
    places.
    Myths and legends deal largely with gods, their deeds, adventures,
    dealing with supernatural beings and culture heroes with origins and
    explanation of things and phenomena in the surrounding world.
    3) Folktale: Pure fiction that seems to have no other origin than a desire
    to amuse and
    interest.
    bring knowledge and understanding of mens motives and tolerance
    that recognizes faith where ignorance would only see superstition. It is
    especially necessary to have this knowledge now when modern science
    and invention have brought the world into a closer community of nations.
    Widely disseminated through all places in the world might bring to
    reality what we all bring about our world.
    The folktales are shaped by the thoughts and the actions, the
    aspirations and fears of a people. Often the outline of a story and
    sometimes even the characters are common to several characters (epic
    and folklore).
    Pre-Spanish Literature is characterized by:
    A. LEGENDS
    Its aim is to entertain.
    B. Folk tales
    a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk,
    especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
    C. Epics
    noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon
    a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in
    elevated style
    D. Folk songs
    a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by
    oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in
    several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and
    stanza, narrative verse.

    E. Epigrams
    a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and
    usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.
    F. Riddles
    a question or statement so framed as to exercise ones ingenuity in
    answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum.
    G. Chants
    a short, simple melody, especially one characterized by single notes to
    which an indefinite number of syllables are intoned, used in singing
    psalms, canticles, etc., in church services.
    H. Proverbs and Sayings
    A saying is a short, clever expression that usually contains advice or
    expresses some obvious truth.
    Proverb: a piece of common-sense wisdom expressed in practical,
    homely terms (A stitch in time saves nine).

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