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Si Angngalo

1997 Pen and Ink

Among the Visayans there is the story of Angngalo, the local version of Atlas. Angngalo is a giant who holds the skyworld on his shoulders, and from his excrement and urine came the land and water masses.

Every time Angngalo shifted his position or scratched his back, earthquakes were formed. His situation was not a form of punishment, rather it was his job as a god of the earth.

Angngalo wore a giant colorfully flowing loin cloth which later became the rainbow. In the local language, the word for rainbow is bahaghari, and by its root word bahag means loin cloth and hari means king. Thus, bahaghari means the king’s loin cloth.

The image of Angngalo, in the drawing, is marked by the tattoo designs of the Pintados.

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Inktober Day 02 "Bakunawa" Sometimes a deity that was represented as a serpentine dragon, according to Filipino mythology. He has two sets of wings, whiskers, a red tongue, and a mouth ‘the size of a lake.’ The Filipinos once thought that the Bakunawa lived in the sea at a time when the world had seven moons that the serpents, being fascinated by their light, would rise out of the sea into the sky and consume the moons. Thus, the serpents were the cause of lunar eclipses. To prevent the world from becoming dark the people would run out of their homes, taking their pots and pans, to make the most noise they could in order to scare the Bakunawa so they would stop eating the moons, and give them the moonlight back. But in some versions, these serpents also devour the sun in which case also cause the solar eclipse. Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment on IFEX Vellum Board #Ravenfox13 #ArtPh #Inktober #Inktober2017 #ravenfox13inktoberlist #Dragon #Naga #Bakunawa #Moon #Eclipse #PhilippineMyth #Drawing #sketch #IFEXph #FaberCastellPh #InktoberWithNBS

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Katutubong Kwento: Nga Hamiton

2003

Tempera and Colored Pens on Paper

All over the archipelago, there are stories of people with snakes as siblings. On such story is the Nga Hamiton, from the T'Boli people of South Cotabato.

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Katutubong Kwento: Malakás at Magandá

2003

Acrylic on Board

The common myth of the first man and woman is that they were born of a plant that was split into two by a hungry bird, the man and woman emerge from the split bamboo trunk.

To the ancient Tagálog people: the first man was named “Malakas” that meant “the Strong One”, and the first woman was named “Maganda” that meant “the Beautiful One”

To the ancient Bisayân people: the first man was named “Sicalac” and the first woman was named “Sicauay”

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Syiokoy

1997 Pen and Ink

The syiokoy is a common water creature in Philippine folklore. However its description varies throughout the various tribes in the Philippines. They are humans who live in the water, to some they are merfolk or sirena, and to others they are more fish than man. Even their nature s highly debatable, they are considered nature sits even diwata, they are also thought t be humans in changed form, and they are even believed to be monsters of the waterways. Whatever the description, the syiokoy is a popular belief, not only in the Philippines, but in other countries as well.

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Ang Pagdarating ni Makadingding

1997 Pen and Ink

In the Bukidnon epic of Baybayan, the arrival of the Makadingding, the giant boar, was one of the signs of the last day of man on earth.

According to the story, on the fateful day, two suns will shine across the sky and the giant boar, Makadingding, will appear. Once the people slay the great beast and feast on its magical meat, will the Salimbal, or giant ark, appear from the sky to take the chosen to the skyworld.

Aside from the illustrations of the Makadingding and the two suns, the Salimbal is depicted as an element of the cloth pattern in the background.

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Lalapindow-ai

1997 Pen and Ink

One of the minor stories in the Daragen, the Maranao epic, is the tale of Lalapindow-ai, the wasp.

Once, Lalapindow-ai was a human farmer who asked his wife, Odang, to bring him his lunch to the farm rather than he return home and waste the time traveling.

One day, out of laziness, Odang refused to bring the food to her husband. For her transgression, the gods punished her by turning her into a shrimp a dropped her into the pot of food, where she turned red and got cooked.

Lalapindow-ai, upon returning home looking for his wife and his lunch, discovered what had transpired. In his ire, he started to tighten his belt, knowing he will have to go on with little food now that his wife was dead.

At that, Lalapindow-ai was turned into a wasp, and that is why wasps have thin waists.

In the drawing, the cloth illustration has the shrimp symbol.

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Makalindog

1997 Pen and Ink

According to Yligueyen belief, the world is supported by giant pillars under the sea, and here resides the giant serpent, Makalindog. Each time the Makalindog moves, an earthquake is created.

In other countries as well as other cultures in the Philippines, there are similar stories of earthquake serpents. To some it is either the earthquake god or his pet.

In the drawing, the hands at the top of the border are to symbolize Angngalo, the giant that holds the heavens.