Hinilawod

Mrs. Charlene A. Pueblas

 DIFFICULT WORDS
 Dowry – money or property that a wife or wife’s
family gives to her husband when the wife and
husband marry in some cultures.
 Feat – an act that shows courage, strength or
skill
 Ridge – a long area of land that is on top of a
mountain or hill
 Prowess – great ability
 Sorceress – witch
 Hinilawod is the first discovered "by accident"
in 1955, when Filipino anthropologist F. Landa
Jocano became interested in native folklore.
He travelled the hinterlands of his home island
of Panay with two colleagues collecting folk
songs, stories, and riddles. It was during one
of those trips to the upland barrios of
Lambunao, Maasin, Janiuay, and Calinog
in Iloilo that his attention was called to a long
and popular tale called Hinilawod. Portions of
the story were sung to him and his colleague
by an old man called Ulang Udig.
 Hinilawod is a 29,000-verse epic that takes
about three days to chant in its original form,
making it one of the longest epics known,
alongside that of Tibet's Epic of King Gesar.
Hinilawod is one of the many pieces of oral
literature passed from one generation to the
next, changed and morphed by the chanter to
one degree or another as he told it to his
audience. The Hinilawod is not just a literary
piece but also a source of information about
culture, religion and rituals of the ancient
people of Sulod; showing us that ancient
Filipinos believed in the "sacred," in the
importance of family honour and in personal
courage and dignity.
 “tales from the mouth of Halawod River”.
 has no known author and is orally handed down
from folk singer to folk singer
 an example of folk epic
 Considered as the oldest and longest epic of
Panay.
 It tells about the story of the three
superheroes, Labaw Dongon, Dumalapdap, and
Humadapnin- all sons of the goddess Alunsina
and her mortal husband, Paubari.
 It also gives account of the unusual and
fantastic adventures of these three sons
especially when each decides to go in quest for
his own bride.