all [Music] in 1988 and 1989 up visas based Anthropologist Dr Alicia magos had a chance to explore the mountains of central panai for 10 days with a group of ncip region 6 field Personnel taking the Eastern route to Central panai with interior Tapas capies as the target 2 years later in 1991 and 1992 she organized her own group composed of upv Iloilo research assistants Anna raisel lamoso and Judith Pabo along with a Hollywood nonon youth Ricardo Kamari serving as the guide in her journey to the heartland of Panay various agencies facilitated funding support recognizing that there is a dir of information in this area of research the purpose of that trip was to see more of the pan aanon and Hala woodon Baron guys she as well verified the presence and distribution of Epic chanting in these areas it was during that Tri that she was able to see an 84-year-old kept Maiden as well as women chanters who were sisters or close relatives of aukot she also learned that the people inhabiting the interior mountains of the pasca pce and kalino Iloilo are descendants of mountain people of interior panai previously called by various names Montes by yeno Mundos by Yama and solod by huko she theorized that their origin was once the coast before the colonizers came in but moved to the far mountains following the course of two major rivers halwood and panai Rivers Dr magos also explored Central panai in the early 1990s to clarify and strongly establish the IP identity of Panay bidon and thereby clarifying their ethnic [Applause] name all Mountain dwellers in central panai covering the four provinces are panon the use of the names halnon payan on aanon and iron are names referring to their source of sustenance the halwood and panai River [Music] respectively living in Mino or groups of houses these villagers must have come from the Sea Coast but moved to the interior and near water bodies the rivers and creeks [Music] [Applause] a bookan house is usually a one room Affair that is elevated from the ground by bamboo pools and is made of bamboo and NEPA or kugon a common fixture in their household is a Duan and a lung where they pound the rice other tools and materials that you can find inside their houses are the following sanduk a long black knife for cut L and Halo a mortar and pesel for pounding rice tagad a bamboo or wood sharpened at the end for digging holes BN a small Wen basket tied to one's waist containing rice seeds tongos is a big woven container made of bamboo strips for containing cavans of rice and iwa a bolo it is from the kalup or land the mountains Hills and patches of land where they farm and get the visayan varieties of rice such as bisaya and Malo while working on the farm there were songs being sung to entertain themselves their lives in the mountains focused around tilling the land in searching the environment for their sustenance K farming is a common activity they also make charcoal that they sell to the lowlands the bukidnon spend hours of trkking through a rugged Trail and rivers carrying their products to the nearby Market by means of a short bamboo pole called tuang tangan this balances whatever it is that they are transporting in their bodies and makes the baggage variable they also plant coffee abaka Gabby Palawan and other root crops root crops are Staples during lean months when rice is not available weaving is a common activity for the bukidnon because of the availability of bamboo and ratan products from these are used in their everyday chores and are sold to augment their needs [Music] it is in the catalunan or Forest where they trap wild animals using balati liong and Li pit they Place traps for wild animals such as lagid wild boes and deers Al libaong is a hole big enough to trap the animal with sharp pointed bamboo sticks or Luba and covered on top with leaves C OD or bug Hut is a hanging rope serving a strap set on a branch of a sloping area the tig laak a curved Branch tigp set under a tree and once the safety is released the pig's legs is caught the Luba also a trap works when a wild boar jumps on it and if it is hit by a pointed stick the for or Hunter traces the blood to locate [Music] it it is in the kigan or water bod such as Rivers Waters Springs and streams where they get food also by chopping fish and fresh water shrimps bid non children also make the waterfalls as their playing Ground Pang is a meth method of catching indigenous little fishes in the river called onog by using a cloth tied on the neck some traditional techniques used for Gathering food are the following pmon where branches of trees are placed on one part of the river for water to flow and allow fishes and crustations to come [Music] in ta on a fish trap or a woven bamboo trap is set against the flow of the river current to allow fish to come [Applause] bowon a fish trap with a bait paon inside it is similar to a taon pahan is a huge bamboo trap set on the intersection of the river where in two sides of the flowing water goes to the [Music] Trap diving down the Deep part of the river armed with a bus light pointed iwa or LS using a lente to protect the eyes and see clearly through the water the big fishes and freshwater strims pulo or padog are catching fishes crabs and crustaceans in the early evening by using a torch to attract these fishes and Crustaceans respect of the spirit beings inhabiting the forests the rivers and the land prevails in the bukun psych despite having missionaries coming from the lowland and Western medicines reaching the bukidnon they are still strongly attached to the Banes and the maram that offer cure and provides advice after a day's workon would listen to the Elder members of the family who would sing suan these are epics that tells the exploits of the mythical characters of humapon labun malawa and others epics are sang or chanted long stories handed down mostly by cap maidens or binot the Epic chance give lessons and shows the world viw and social structure of the Epic people the ancestors of the Panay bid nonon it also serves as Lula for children and as entertainment its theme are mostly about romance and Adventure H the traditional wedding figures in the lives of the bukidnon as it is a time for feast and celebration people come to join the celebration and enjoy the reper day of the bride and groom's [Music] parents federo cabalero toan was awarded the Gaba or the national living Treasure by the national commission for culture and the Arts in the year 2000 for epic literature this is for his Mastery of the 10 epics or suon sugon comes from the term sug to tell or narrate he comes from a family of at least five generations of Epic chanters his great grandparents are mostly chanters or Manon baban or shamans and man husai Arbiters this is from the lineage of angu opin to anguran who is Lula SAA his siblings are also good Epic chanters Oran R anding Aban good chanters come from the family with a bot lineage bot is a maiden jealously hidden from the eyes of men and commands a high bride gift at the early age of four or five or even before the girl is Born the child is already pledged for marriage to a young boy as agreed by the parents this is sealed by AOS a precious material or gift to seal the agreement in the course of Dr maa's research she has collected a series of sugan stories about the adventures of different characters that revolves around the land and sea a total of 10 epic stories of 13 volumes were gathered this are tadom where p goes to a hunting spree with his dog tium and cuts a magical bambo tree owned by masang Ladon a great witch and monster ukai tells of a Hermit woman or an ugly monster who owns a gold pubic hair and took to her care two beautiful young girls is about a gold medallion that sagayan offers for marriage to a lovely bot mat who was already pledged in a child marriage to laun hence conflict follows balak on the other hand tells about a warrior who grows to halwood to pursue Matan Aon but was interrupted by sandon at the river bangaan and ends with a fight where balanon was defeated kalai is about a huge crab where masang Ladon a man from the underworld Fells in love with Matan Aon and commands Kampai to dis guy say an island to deceive hero a diety from the upper World Fells in love with the lovely Matan sinan is about Matan who is now wife of Labon who Longs for her sister and persuades LA to get her from sin and make her his wife too humad in his story of four volumes talks about humapon one which is about the tangan humap 2 which isal kabad 3 hung andap four the ginan this is by far the longest of the epics with three month storytelling they tell of humapon pursuit for Mal the wedding and misunderstandings aaya is about a sweet scented flower the beautiful Malong yawa was pursued by the handsome humapon using a Garland of sweet scented flowers called Alay a ceremonial ritual where a now an old woman gets sick and performs a ceremony of power transferred to her daughter Mali all conflicts in the Epic are settled with Laina as Arbiter or man husai when federo cabalero became a Gaba awarde a BAL runan was built in gangan and later in a Galaga to propagate the culture every Saturday children would go to school and learn about epic chanting weaving and playing of musical instruments as well as binog dancing the school for Living Traditions are informal schools with leaving Elders serving as Masters teaching the children the skills during weekends there were eight more slts built in kalino Iloilo and tapasa sugon or epic chanting gives lessons and entertainment and inspires children to learn the skills of Elders and their ancestors B and eagle HW dance mentioned in the sugon still survives today to remind the younger generation of their benut ancestors who are good dancers women who dance banog wears aong headdress B kit necklace and a wos belt which are all made of ancient coins panobook is a special needle work a traditionally designed form of embroidery most of which are inspired by plants and animals in the environment and by the epic characters and are being embroidered in the clothes of bukidnon that are used during special occasions these also have sudama designs inspired by the skin of the python snake and matang punai that is patterned after the eyes of the punai bird and epic character in The alayo a child with interest in any of the traditional musical instruments are taught or are encouraged to learn the following gong lit Tumo suang subing or kapi kapi is a stringed instrument likened to a guitar aside from epic chanting there are other oral literatures that are sang by the bkid non these are ulai ambahan tala and dilot Ola High are long stories but shorter than the epics and told in a chanting Style ambahan on the other hand are chanted lines sang by the elders when they gather it expresses a longing or parting the lot is a chanted reper with a general theme centered on love between a couple a young man and a woman or a parent and child while tala which is also a chanted rer day is used to oute or indirectly insult in a subtle manner the other person [Music] 23 years had lapsed since we first started working on the epics of anai the sugon and now we want to show to this present generation that these ethics are their very own to value and to cherish Dr Magus has facilitated Ed the digitalizing of the epics from the sensitive tape recording to DVDs with the assistance of the Idan College of Music they were transcribed and encoded with the help of a researchers the archive documents of the 10 epics with 13 volumes at the center for West resign studies were secured and later on translated to kinaray Filipino and English eventually it will be an ebook copy and hard copies which will all be published by the up press there are many more that needs to be done and Dr magos invites Scholars and cultural workers to continue research on the epics and the bukidnon culture the works of Dr magos anded has gone far because of the dedication that they gave to resurrect a dying culture in the heartland of panai we are now recipients of a rich cultural heritage the place of the panai bukidnon and their recognition as an indigenous group has been secured it is a legacy that Dr Alicia magos and Gaba awarde Federico cabalero have bestowed upon us the panan 26 years had lapsed since I started exploring Central pay for the presence of the epics I start translating the epics 23 years ago and now we have published epic one which is about to come out I wish to thank the University of the Philippines for making possible the publication of the ethics as well as its popularization [Applause] [Music] [Music] e [Music] [Music] for for [Music]