The “tupayya” (dance) is a great story of a community engagement involving members, during courtship between a man and a woman.

It is unique tradition that deserves worldwide recognition.

The Ulaging is an epic cycle among the Talaandig Manobo of Bukidnon, Mindanao. Like most epics, it s aasociate with the sacred as the deities invoked.

The Manobo culture has its own worldview, and this epic reveals their interpretation of life. To go into the core of the Ulaging is to go the core of the meaning of life according to the Talaandig Manobo.

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The Hudhud consists of narrative chants traditionally performed by the Ifugao community, which is well known for its rice terraces extending over the highlands of the northern island of the Philippine archipelago. It is practised during the rice sowing season, at harvest time and at funeral wakes and rituals. Thought to have originated before the seventh century, the Hudhud comprises more than 200 chants, each divided into 40 episodes. A complete recitation may last several days.

Lanao del Sur is a wealth of old-world charms. From ostentatious royal houses to the tiniest detail in their gongs, Maranao arts and crafts carry the stories of its vibrant culture. Everywhere you look around there’s always a reminder of how art thrives amidst its episodes of struggles.

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The Hanunoo Mangyan’s universe is known as sinukuban (dominion) or kalibutan (all that surrounds). All existence, visible and invisible, is embraced in this concept. The universe has an ellipsoidal shape like a coconut, composed of plural strata (‘oklot) and between one stratum and another is the pawa’ (interval space).

This is just a part of the concept of cosmology of the Mangyans in Mindoro. Know more about their stories of the earth and the universe.

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For many Filipinos, death is not the end when it comes to relating with their relatives and loved ones. And the Ilocanos, the third largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines are no exception. Through the elaborate ritual of the “atang,” Ilocanos have their own unique way of honoring their dead.

The Ilocano Ritual of “Atang” is known as a food offering that is intended to drive away evil and malevolent spirits. It plays an important role in Ilocano culture, as Ilocanos generally believe that there are spirits who live among us, either of the dead or of other worlds who need to be appeased whenever they are disturbed or offended.

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Filipino seafarers from AIDAblu and, AIDAmar line up to check in for their flight to Manila at Frankfurt Airport in Germany.

FRANKFURT 13 May 2020 – The Philippine Consulate General in Frankfurt assisted in the repatriation of 239 Filipino seafarers in their transit in Frankfurt, Germany on 11 May 2020.

The latest batch of repatriates was composed of 188 crew of AIDAblu and 51 of AIDAmar who signed off while their ships were docked at the German Port of Hamburg. The shipping company, AIDA Cruises, chartered the Condor flight to bring home the seafarers.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) facilitated the arrival of the seafarers from Germany amidst the cap imposed by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) on the daily number of arriving overseas Filipinos in the country in order to manage the existing quarantine protocols and to ensure that OFWs are adequately attended to upon their arrival. END

The chartered Condor flight DE 8474 carrying 239 Filipino seafarers prepares to depart the airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

By the river Tabunganan is a spring, which is the abode of an evil spirit. Tuwan Putli, accompanied by her cousin Ambaynan, goes there to fish. As they are about to leave, Tuwan Putli sees a river lobster with golden pincers. Ambaynan waits for her, but Tuwan Putli disappears. There is blood in her fish basket. Ambaynan goes home and reports the incident…..

Sounds interesting? This is just the beginning of the epic of Pala’wan people.

“Kudaman” is an epic of Palawan. It is dramatization of nature and social life, a validation of the beliefs, ethics, way of life to Palawan culture. The complete epic is composed of six songs. It takes seven nights to perform the epic. The first night is used to introduce the epic; each of the six songs takes a night to perform. The hero Kudaman appears after the introductory chant.

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