LESSON 4: TAGALOG MYTHOLOGY

DEFINITION OF TERMS:

FOLKLORE: traditional beliefs, stories, customs and legends.

FOLK LITERATURE:

 FOLK SPEECH: refers to the dialect, or style of speaking, unique to people living
within a geographic area.

 FOLK SONG: traditional or composed song typically characterized by stanzaic form,

refrain, and simplicity of melody.

 FOLK NARRATIVES: reflect on amalgamation of the traditions common to a

particular culture, subculture or group through storytelling.

MYTH: symbolic narrative that ostensibly relates actual events and that is especially
associated with religious belief.

GODS AND GODDESSES OF PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

KALUWALHATIAN:

 BATHALA- all knowing  IDINAYALE- Goddess of Labor

and Good Deeds
 ULILANG KALULUWA
 DUMANGAN- God of Good

 GALANG KALULUWA Harvest

 IKAPATI- Goddess of the

 ANITUN TABU- Goddess of Wind
Cultivated Land
and Rain

 DUMAKULEM- Guardian of the

Mountains
  MAPULON- God of the Seasons  AMANIKABLE- God of the Sea

 APOLAKI- God of Sun and War  HANAN- Goddess of Morning

 ANAGOLAY- Goddess of Lost  MAYARI- Goddess of Moon

Things
 TALA- Goddess of Stars
 DIAN MASALANTA- Goddess of
Lovers and Childbirth

KASANAAN:

 SITAN- God of the Underworld

 MANGANGAWAY

 MANGKUKULAM

 MANISILAT

 HUKLUBAN