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    The document provides information about the Subanon people, an indigenous tribe from the Zamboanga peninsula in the Philippines. It discusses that the Subanon people speak the Subanon language and traditionally lived in low-lying river areas, though many have moved into the interior due to conflicts with other groups. It also summarizes that the Subanon are farmers who cultivate crops like rice and raise livestock. Their traditional weddings, called ghubays, are initiated by a timuay leader and involve wearing traditional costumes and rituals with symbols of prosperity. The document also briefly mentions Subanon cultural practices like panggasi wine, agung gongs, buklog rituals, and mourning traditions.

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    The document provides information about the Subanon people, an indigenous tribe from the Zamboanga peninsula in the Philippines. It discusses that the Subanon people speak the Subanon language and traditionally lived in low-lying river areas, though many have moved into the interior due to conflicts with other groups. It also summarizes that the Subanon are farmers who cultivate crops like rice and raise livestock. Their traditional weddings, called ghubays, are initiated by a timuay leader and involve wearing traditional costumes and rituals with symbols of prosperity. The document also briefly mentions Subanon cultural practices like panggasi wine, agung gongs, buklog rituals, and mourning traditions.

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    The document provides information about the Subanon people, an indigenous tribe from the Zamboanga peninsula in the Philippines. It discusses that the Subanon people speak the Subanon language and traditionally lived in low-lying river areas, though many have moved into the interior due to conflicts with other groups. It also summarizes that the Subanon are farmers who cultivate crops like rice and raise livestock. Their traditional weddings, called ghubays, are initiated by a timuay leader and involve wearing traditional costumes and rituals with symbols of prosperity. The document also briefly mentions Subanon cultural practices like panggasi wine, agung gongs, buklog rituals, and mourning traditions.

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    Subanon

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    The document provides information about the Subanon people, an indigenous tribe from the Zamboanga peninsula in the Philippines. It discusses that the Subanon people speak the Subanon language and traditionally lived in low-lying river areas, though many have moved into the interior due to conflicts with other groups. It also summarizes that the Subanon are farmers who cultivate crops like rice and raise livestock. Their traditional weddings, called ghubays, are initiated by a timuay leader and involve wearing traditional costumes and rituals with symbols of prosperity. The document also briefly mentions Subanon cultural practices like panggasi wine, agung gongs, buklog rituals, and mourning traditions.

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    Subanon 

    (also spelled Subanen or Subanun) is a tribe indigenous to the Zamboanga


    peninsula area, particularly living in the mountainous areas of Zamboanga del Sur and Misamis
    Occidental, Mindanao Island, Philippines. The Subanon people speak the Subanon language. The
    name is derived from the word "suba", a word common in Sulu, Visayas, and Mindanao, which
    means “river,” and the suffix “-nun” or -non” which indicates a locality or place of origin.
    Accordingly, the name "Subanon" means "a person or people of the river".[9] These people
    originally lived in the low lying areas. However, due to disturbances and competitions from other
    settlers like the Muslims, and migrations of Cebuano speakers to the coastal areas attracted by
    the inviting Land Tenure Laws, further pushed the Subanen into the interior.
    The Subanons are farmers and regularly move from one location to another to clear more forest
    for fields. They cultivate crops, with rice as the most important crop, but they are also known to
    raise livestock including pigs, and chickens.
    Thimuay is the name of the most senior ancestral leader among the Subanon people of
    the Zamboanga peninsula in the Philippines.
    Subanen language is a group of closely related Austronesian languages belonging to the greater
    central Philippines. In certain places, the Subanon language
    has some Visayan and Moro words mixed in, as a result of centuries of trading
    activities between Cebu and the northern coast of Mindanao. The
    Kalibugan or the Subanon who were converted to Islam speak a language which is a
    mixture of Kalibugan and Moro.
    Subanen people have adopted either Islam, Catholicism, or Evangelical Protestantism.

    Subanen Wedding(ghubay)

    It is the traditional wedding of Subanen.The wedding is iniated by a timuay who are liable to


    conduct a marriage ceremony.In wedding time couple must wear a traditional subanen costume.
    The man should wear a bolo on his waste symbolizes as the one who stand to hid family.In a
    white stainless round table,their should be a glass of water,pangasi(subanen
    wine),pulot(malagkit) gumo(egg).It is part of the ceremony to take the symbols to have a
    prosperous family.
    Panggasi is very known as subanen wine.It is the mixture of different ingredients that maker
    itself knows it.Usually,it is serve during important occasion such as wedding,birthday andeven
    burial time.
    The agung is a set of two wide-rimmed, vertically suspended gongs used by
    the Maguindanao, Maranao, Tausug and Subanen  people of the Philippines
    Some elements of Subanen traditional culture and way of life have changed but some have
    endured, including the buklog.
    The buklog is an ancient practice, with mythical origins mentioned in Subanen and Epic's. A
    ritual specialist called Balyan
    The buklog Gaus for example, is a Thanksgiving act for a good harvest, while the Buklog
    Menonot it honors a new Timuay or village leader. The Buklog Samaya thanks the gods or
    spirits for recovery from illness and the buklog Palanto honors the souls of the dead.

    Mourning take place in the home with the body present and accompanied by loud waling.
    The body is wrapped in a white cloth and laid in a hollowed-out log coffin. Funerary objects
    include pieces of broken pottery, knives, betel boxes, and some food offerings.

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