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    The document summarizes a mythical figure from Mindanao called Bakunawa, a gigantic sea serpent. According to the description, Bakunawa was believed to have devoured all but one moon. The last remaining moon, named Haliya, avoided being eaten by making noises using drums and gongs, which Bakunawa found repulsive. Ancient Visayans believed eclipses were caused by Bakunawa trying to swallow the moon, so they would bang drums and cans to force it to release the moon. The document also compares and contrasts myths from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, noting differences between ethnic groups as well as similarities incorporating influences from other traditions.

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    The document summarizes a mythical figure from Mindanao called Bakunawa, a gigantic sea serpent. According to the description, Bakunawa was believed to have devoured all but one moon. The last remaining moon, named Haliya, avoided being eaten by making noises using drums and gongs, which Bakunawa found repulsive. Ancient Visayans believed eclipses were caused by Bakunawa trying to swallow the moon, so they would bang drums and cans to force it to release the moon. The document also compares and contrasts myths from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, noting differences between ethnic groups as well as similarities incorporating influences from other traditions.

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    The document summarizes a mythical figure from Mindanao called Bakunawa, a gigantic sea serpent. According to the description, Bakunawa was believed to have devoured all but one moon. The last remaining moon, named Haliya, avoided being eaten by making noises using drums and gongs, which Bakunawa found repulsive. Ancient Visayans believed eclipses were caused by Bakunawa trying to swallow the moon, so they would bang drums and cans to force it to release the moon. The document also compares and contrasts myths from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, noting differences between ethnic groups as well as similarities incorporating influences from other traditions.

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    156 views2 pages

    Assignment 6

    Uploaded by

    Erica Calubayan
    The document summarizes a mythical figure from Mindanao called Bakunawa, a gigantic sea serpent. According to the description, Bakunawa was believed to have devoured all but one moon. The last remaining moon, named Haliya, avoided being eaten by making noises using drums and gongs, which Bakunawa found repulsive. Ancient Visayans believed eclipses were caused by Bakunawa trying to swallow the moon, so they would bang drums and cans to force it to release the moon. The document also compares and contrasts myths from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, noting differences between ethnic groups as well as similarities incorporating influences from other traditions.

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    Name: Erica G.

    Calubayan

    Assignment 6

    Part I

    1. Choose one mythical figure in Luzon, Visayas or Mindanao.


    2. Draw your chosen mythical figure in a whole bond paper.
    3. Write a brief description of the mythical figure.
    4. Take a picture or scan it and submit it to me in PDF format.

    The Ancient Mindanao Deities of Philippine Mythology

    ( BAKUNAWA )
    3. Write a brief description of the mythical figure.

    BAKUNAWA The gigantic sea serpent called bakunawa, a mythical creature found in the early Bicolano
    and Hiligaynon culture, devoured all but one of these moons. Haliya was the name of the last moon
    standing, and she spared herself from being eaten by making noises using drums and gongs sounds that
    the bakunawa found repulsive. Pre-colonial Filipinos blamed the bakunawa for causing the eclipse. The
    Hiligaynon people of the Visayas believe that the bakunawa lives either in an area between the sky and
    the clouds or inside the bungalog which is an underground passage near the head waters of big river
    systems. Believing that an eclipse was actually a bakunawa attempting to swallow the moon, ancient
    Visayans tried to ward off the monster by creating sounds. They did this by striking the floors of their
    houses or by beating cans, drums, and the like. We can assume, with certainty, that the ancient
    Visayans did practice the custom of banging drums during a lunar eclipse to force Bakunawa to release
    the moon.

    Part II

    1. Compare and contrast myths in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

    Compare of myths in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao are between ethnic groups, and complexities in the
    beliefs of ethnic realms.The contrast of myths Philippine mythology in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
    myths deities are either good or bad, It focuses on story rather than truths, and it is a story telling of
    myths also is the body of stories and epics originating from, and part of, the indigenous Philippine folk
    religions, which include various ethnic faiths distinct from one another. Philippine mythology is
    incorporated from various sources, having similarities with Indonesian and Malay myths, as well as
    Hindu, Muslim, Shinto, Buddhist, and Christian traditions, such as the notion of heaven, hell, earth and
    the human soul. Philippine mythology attempts to explain the nature of the world through the lives and
    actions of heroes, deities and mythological creatures.

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