Visayan Literature And Entertainment

Chapter 5:

VISAYAN LITERATURE and ENTERTAINMENT
 
Alphabet
* Alicinas 1668 Historia four missionary amaze recorded the letters the visayans were writing in their day
* game Bisaya Cebuano
* Ante de Lingua Bisaya hiliguaina dela Isla Panay
* Mentrida Ante presents a curious alphabet seemingly not based on any Tagalog type font
* Historia Sacro Profana
* Chirinos Relacion showed characters very different from the Letras de la Filipinosof Chirinos original capital of Italy edition of 1604.
LITERATURE
oral literature, and as such, was not recorded.
no evince of any prose literature, but ordinary Visayan speech was itself rich with fiction and colorful imagery.
a high proportion of dictionary basis have both a literal and a analogical meaning
pejorative terms to apply to common objects when angry
All this rime was generally sung or chanted rather than recited
Ambahan (different verses)- is usual among children and adult of both sexes.
siday or kandu- noblest literary form which is the nigh difficult of all-long, sustained, repetitious, and heavy with metaphor and allusion.




Example of literary literary productions
Kabungaw and Bubung Ginbuna
EPIC
Visayan epic
* Siday or Kandu must have been the prehispanic term for house epic
* Power and prestige was based on the control of striver labor
* Usually about Visayan heroes
* Characterized by highly repetitious plots
* A good epic has an ending with colorful and lavish conjugal union feasts of the protagonists.
* Example: The Kandu of Datung Sumanga and Bungbung Humasanun
FOLKLORE
Visayan folklore is replete with tales and legends about the Creation and about heroism, object lesson conflict, and the triumph of good over evil. Among the oft-told tales are legends about The starting signal Man and Woman, The Tortoise and the Monkey, and the like.
The First Man and Woman
Why the palpitate is called Stupid
THE TORTOISE AND THE MONKEY
PUSONG OF MAGTAON
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