Pahiyas of Lucban, Quezon

Physical Education - Known as "Maluban" or "Columban"

Religious Festivals - The farmers used to gather their harvests inside
- Sacred dance and beliefs of the people the chaplet(tuklong), where they used to
- To feast and celebrate converge and partake a sumptuous meal.
- A day or period of time set aside for - Feast of San Isidro LabradoR.
Subli - Procession of the images of San Isidro Labrardor
- Panata at Panalangin and Sta. Maria Toribia.
- Considered to be a favorite of the people of the - Decorates their house with colorful rice crispies,
barrios of the municipality of Bauan, Batangas palay, fruits and fish.
- Ceremonial worship dance Fertility Dance Rites of Obando, Bulacan
- “Sobli” salisi o pagpapalit ng pwesto - Prayerful appeal
Kata - Honor to Santa Clara, San Pascual De Baylon,
- Pabaluktol and Nuestra Señora de Salambao.
- Awit at Panalangin - Prayer offered to childless.
Subli Dance: Moriones Festival
- Pugay - Annual festival held on Holy Week and not on
- Salin summer time in Marinduque.
- Panggiri - Costumes and mask are replicating the garb of
- Sadsad biblical Roman soldiers.
- Tiad - Morion means “mask or visor”
Festivals - Holy Monday to Easter Sunday scaring kids.
Ati-Atihan of Kalibo, Aklan - VIA CRUSIS – most significant time
- Mardi Gras of the Philippines Via Crusis
- To honor Santo Niño - A re-anctment of the suffering of Christ on his
- "To be like the Aetas" or "make belive Ati's." way to the Calvary.
- 13th Century
- Mother of all festivals
Sinulog Festival of Cebu
- One of the most well-known festivals
- First initiated by faithful devotees of Santo Niño
after their conversion from pagan beliefs to
Christianity in 1521.
- They believed that Senior Santo Niño will
perform miraculous healing of any sicknesses
and grant petitions and prayers.
- Sulog – current
Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo
- A replica of the original image of the Santo Niño
de Cebu was brought to Iloilo by Fr. Sulpicio
Enderez.
- Devotion to St. Niño by Rev. Fr. Ambrosio
Galindez.
- The Confradia patterned the celebration on the
Ati-Atihan of Aklan, where natives dance in the
streets, their bodies covered with soot and
ashes, to simulate the Atis dancing to celebrate
the sale of Panay.
- The Dinagyang is divided into three Major
events: Ati-Ati Street Dancing, Kasadyahan
Street Dancing and Miss Dinagyang.