There were even reports of a dramatic play given by natives at the arrival of Don Miguel Lopez de Legaspi in 1565.Įpic poems and songs about the exploits of enchanted folk heroes were performed during festivities and proper occasions. And early historians like Padre Colin, Joaquin Martinez de Zuniga and Antonio Pigafetta have all attested to the existence of these epics. Tales of love and adventures about native heroes, endowed with powers from the gods, battle monsters, and triumphs over formidable armies, rode the wind, traveled in flying shields and protect the earliest communities of the islands.Įstablished epic poems of notable quality and length blossomed. Stories of epics, done in poetry displayed tremendous vitality, color and imagination. And there is hardly a man, much less a woman who did not read and write.” (Relacion de las isles Filipinas-1604) Pedro Chirino noted: “All of the islanders are much given to reading and writing. There were substantial writings by early natives that Jesuit historian Fr. Centuries before the Spaniards came the Filipinos already had their own cultural traditions, folklore, mythologies and epics.
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