Republic of the Philippines

DON HONORIO VENTURA STATE UNIVERSITY

Villa de Bacolor, Pampanga

Laboratory High School

ENGLISH 7

Name:Hannah Isabella I. Datu Date:_________________________

Section:7-Jupiter Teacher:______________________

YOUR TURN

Read the story of Tungkung Langit and Alunsina and answer the following questions.

TUNGKUNG LANGIT: A popular deity of the Suludnon people of Panay. He is

their  version of the ‘creator’ who made the world out of primordial chaos. In
other Visayan pantheons, Tungkung Langit was a lesser deity and brother of
Panlinugon, god of  earthquakes. 

ALUNSINA: A prominent goddess in the Suludnon people’s Pantheon of

Gods.  Alunsina, also called “ Laon-Sina” is considered to be the ‘virgin
goddess’ of the  eastern skies and the wife of Tungkung Langit (“Pillar of
Heaven”). In a Panay version  of the Creation Myth Alunsina’s name has been
translated as the “Unmarried One”, “  The One from Foreign skies” and “ One
who is Foreign”. Alunsina also appears in the  Hinilawod Epic. 

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Tungkung Langit and Alunsina Creation Myth 
In the beginning everything was shapeless and formless. The earth, the sky,
the sea,  and the air were almost mixed up. In a word, there was only confusion.
Then from the  depth of this formless void there appeared the god Tungkung
Langit and the goddess  Alunsina. 

It was not known just where these two deities came from but it is related by old
Bisayan  folk that Tungkung Langit fell in love with Alunsina. After he had
courted her for many  years, they married and made their home in the highest
part of heaven. There the water  was always warm and the breeze was forever
cool. In this place order and regularity  began. 

Tungkung Langit was a loving, hard-working god. He wanted to impose order

over the  confused world. He decided to arrange the world so that the heavenly
bodies would  move regularly. On the other hand, Alunsina was a lazy, jealous,
selfish goddess. She  sat at the window all day doing nothing. 

Sometimes she would leave her home, sit down by a pool near the door, and
comb  her long, jet-black hair all day long. One day Tungkung Langit told his
wife that he  would be away for some time. He said he must make time go on
smoothly and arrange  everything in the world.
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When he was gone, Alunsina set the breeze to spy on Tungkung Langit.
Tungkung  Langit found this out and he became very angry. After he returned
home, he told her  that it was ungodly of her to be jealous since there were no
other gods in the world  except the two of them. 

Alunsina resented this reproach, and they quarreled. In his anger, Tungkung
Langit drove his wife away. No one knew where she went. Several days later,
Tungkung  Langit felt very lonely. He realized that he should not have lost his
temper. But it was  too late. 

Once vibrant with Alunsina’s sweet voice, his home became cold and desolate.
In the  morning when he woke up, he would find himself alone. In the afternoon
when he came  home, he would feel the same loneliness creeping deep in his
heart because there  was no one to meet him at the doorstep or soothe the
aching muscles of his arms. 

For months, Tungkung Langit was in utter desolation. He could not find
Alunsina, try  hard as he would. And so, in desperation, he decided to do
something in order to forget  his sorrows. For months and months he thought,
but his mind seemed pointless; his  heart weary and sick. He needed something
to ease his lonely world. 

One day, while he was sailing across the regions of the clouds, a thought came
to him.  He would make the sea and the earth, and the earth and the sea
suddenly appeared.  However, the sombre sight of the lonely sea and the
barren land irritated him. So he  came down to earth and planted the ground
with trees and flowers. 

Then he took his wife’s treasured jewels and scattered them in the sky, hoping
that  when Alunsina would see them she might be induced to return home. The
goddess’s  necklace became the stars, her comb the moon and her crown the
sun. However,  despite Tungkung Langit’s efforts, Alunsina did not come back.

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Until now, some elders of Panay say Tungkung Langit lives alone in his palace
in the  skies. Sometimes, he would cry out his pent-up emotion and his tears
would fall down  upon the earth. When it thunders hard, it is Tungkung Langit
sobbing, calling for his  beloved Alunsina to come back, entreating her so hard
that his voice reverberates  across the fields and the countryside.

Supply the following with correct answers.

Title:

“Tungkung Langit and Alunsina”

Characters:

Tungkung Langit-is the supreme god and ruler of Ibabawnon(Upper world).

Alunsina- is the wife of Tungkung Langit also the goddes of jealousy. Setting

Ethereal Space. Symbol Tungkung langit symbolizes the sky while Alunsina

symbolizes the earth

Setting:

The setting of tungkung langit and alunsina is ethereal space.

Conflict:

Alunsina was a jealous goddess, and she always sends the sea breeze to

spy on Tungkung Langit. When the god found this out, he was not pleased.

Ending:

Alunsina leave her husband to free herself from being a prisoner by him.

Tungkung Langit sobbing, calling for his beloved Alunsina to come back

Moral:

This story educates us that jealousy can destroy the relationship of

two people even how much they love each other.

Title: “Tungkung Langit and Alunsina”

Characters:

Setting:

Conflict:

Ending:

Moral: