BOHOL INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE

City of Tagbilaran

LEARNING MODULE IN LITERATURE 3

TOPIC : The White Horse of Allih

Date : November 27, 2022
Week : Week 13
Module: : Module 13
Time : Saturday, 10:00 a.m-1:00 pm
Test Virtual Venue : Google Classroom
References : https://www.tagaloglang.com/indarapatra-and-sulayman/
Objectives : analyzed that Philippine Literature promotes and preserves worthwhile
and universal values of Filipinos and appreciate their own culture.

Region 12 (Literary Piece)Monki, Makil and the Monkeys

Moli Sultan, 36, housekeeper,
Lumba a Bayabao,
Collector-translator: Hadja Sohaylah Sodioda M. Unte

(2) There once lived in the sultanate of Agamaniyog a couple named Monki and Makil.
Their house was built near the forest. Monki and Makil were hard workers. They
planted rice, mango, lanzones, guava, sugarcane and many kinds of fruits and
vegetables. Whenever the fruits and rice were ripe and the sugarcane taller, a large
number of monkeys would come. They would eat all the rice, sugarcane and fruits
and destroy the remaining plants. One of the monkey’s big leaders was
Amomantaragaga. He was a very big monkey and Makil dared not try and kill him,
because Makil feared that the monkey might kill him instead. The monkeys became
the problem of Monki and Makil as well as of the people of Agamaniyog.
(2) One day Monki and Makil thought a plan. Makil let his wife place a white cloth over
his body and cry a kandidiagao, saying, “Why did Makil die? He was very good to all
the people! He planted sweet fruits and plenty of sugarcane.” When the monkeys
heard the words of Monki, they decided to help her. The leader of the monkeys said,
“We shall help Monki, because it is really true that Makil was a good man. He always
planted fruit for us.”So all monkeys went to the house of Monki. The leader of the
monkeys asked her, “What can we do? Can we help you? Please tell us for we shall
help you!”
(3) Monki replied, “Oh, my friends, Makil will not die if you help him sit up.”
(4) So they helped him sit up. The leader asked, “Can you tell us what else we can do to
help you?”
(5) Oh, my friend monkey, you are very good to me!” continued Monki. “Makil will not die
if you help him stand up.”
(6) “What else can we do, Monki?” asked the leader of the monkeys.
(7) “Oh my friend monkeys, if you give this kampilan(long combat blade) to Makil, I
promise you that we shall plant more sugarcane just for you,” said Monki. When
Amomantaragaga heard this he was afraid and went out of the house. As soon as
Makil received the kampilan, Monki closed the door and Makil killed all the monkeys
in the house. Only Amomantaragaga escaped.
(8) One day Makil and Monki Had another good idea. They made a litag (bamboo trap)
in order to catch Amomantaragaga. Early in the morning they went out to see if the
trap had caught any monkey. In fact it had caught an animal that did not look like a
monkey because of its white color. They were frightened when they came near and
found out that the animal was a heron. This heron was called Tatalaonga.
(9) “Why are you here, Tatalaonga?” asked Makil, “I’ll kill you, for I did not catch
Amomantaragaga because of you!”
(10) “Oh, datu, please don’t kill me,” pleaded the heron. “If you set me free, I’ll go and
kill Amomantaragaga myself!”
(11) So Makil set him free. Tatalaonga asked him to make a raft made of pieces of
sugarcane. When the raft was finished, Makil brought it to the river and Tatalaonga
perched on it. Drifting along, Tatalaonga passed by Amomantaragaga along the
banks and asked the monkey to go rafting with him. The two continued down the
river on the raft.
(12) Tatalaonga took a piece of sugar cane to use as a pole to move the raft and gave
one to Amomantaragaga, who ate his pole. The monkey got one cane after
another, until only one was left. At that, Tatalaonga flew away and
Amomantaragaga drowned.
(13) Monki and Makil and the sultan of Agamaniyog and his people were happy to be rid
of the pest.

EXERCISES

Discuss how the elements of the story reflect the lives of the people where this literature
originates.