[Music] Biag ni Lam-ang or the life of Lam-ang
Don Juan and his wife Namongan live in Nalbuan, now part of La Union in the northern part of the
Philippines. They had a son named Lam-ang. Before Lam-ang was born, Don Juan went to the mountains
in order to punish a group of their Igorot enemies. While he was away, his son was born it
took four people to help Namongan give birth. As soon as the baby popped out, he spoke and asked
that he be given the name Lam-ang he also chose his godparents and asked where his father was.
Lam-ang grew up immediately and after 9 months of waiting for his father to return, Lam-ang decided
he would go look for him. Namongan thought Lam-ang was up to the challenge but she was sad to
let him go. During his exhausting journey, he decided to rest for a while he fell asleep
and had a dream about his father's head being stuck on a pole by the Igorot. Lam-ang was
furious when he learned what had happened to his father. He rushed to their village and
killed them all except for one whom he let go so that he could tell other people about Lam-ang's
greatness. Upon returning to Nalbuan in triumph, he was bathed by women in the Amburayan river.
All the fish died because of the dirt and odor from Lam-ang's body. There was a young woman named
Ines Canoyan whom Lam-ang wanted to woo. She lives in Kalanutian and he brought along his white
rooster and gray dog to visit her. On the way, Lamang met his enemy Sumarang another suitor of
Ines whom he fought and readily defeated. Lamang found the house of Ines surrounded by many suitors
all of whom were trying to catch her attention. He had had his rooster crow which caused a nearby
house to fall this made Ines look out he had his dog bark and in an instant, the fallen house
rose up again the girl's parents witnessed this and called for him the rooster expressed the love
of Lam-ang the parents agreed to a marriage with their daughter if Lam-ang would give them a dowry
valued that double their wealth. Lam-ang had no problem fulfilling this condition and he and Ines
were married It was a tradition to have a newly married man swim in the river for the rarang fish
and unfortunately Lamang dove straight into the mouth of the water monster Berkakan and died.
Ines had Marcus get his bones which he covered with a piece of cloth his rooster crowed and his
dog barked and slowly the bones started to move. Back alive Lam-ang and his wife leave happily ever
after when his wife rooster and dog [Music] GG