Alcinas Historia

Botany First man an first woman; makapaag flower (Man Plant) Zoology Monkeys wisdom: Crabs via tail as bait, living bridges by grabbing each others tails Birds: Tabilalang always in flight and never sleeps; Tarinting nervously turns its head in all directions; Gitgit never stops giving its call (Moral: A householder who intends to protect his wealth and honor must be vigilant/alert.)

LAKI

BAYE

Coconut palms

Each bird chooses its own food to prevent taking that of others Bat chooses tabigi fruit (tasty and pleasant appearance but with bitter, hard seeds) Kabug (dunce, or one who has little sense) Daw napili sin tabigi. Like the Kabug, you chose the tabigi fruit, good to look at but for nothing else

Found sahan (a bud or sprout of a banana plant) Tortoise used deceit to get best part: Asked for the part with leaves, which monkey assumed was the best and kept to himself, giving Tortoise the root Tortoises intestines: full of intrigues and plots Monkeys revenge: Tortoises root grows but cannot reach; Monkey climbs up and eats ripe bananas, throwing rinds to Tortoise

 Pusong:

magahat (great raider) His death

like ants that drag things which

weigh ten times more than all of them together and with their little spears and other arms, they killed him.

Traces of sand

NO FOOTPRINTS

 Karagrag:
Bingi

Lord and ruler

(a virgin or a woman who had been faithful to one man all her life): Karagrags wife

Dumaraug

(the victor): Chief of Albay; intends to bring back Bingi with him