The fresh new men narratives, we.elizabeth. epics and everyone tales is actually ranged, exotic and you will magical. It explain how community was made, how specific dogs provides certain services, why certain areas possess waterfalls, volcanoes, mountains, blooms or fauna and you can, when it comes to stories, a description of your own root from things.
All of our nation’s epics are believed ethno-epics because the unlike, say, Germany’s Niebelunginlied, all of our epics are not federal to possess he’s “histories” of numerous groups you to envision on their own “countries.”
New epics can be found in various labels: Guman (Subanon); Darangen (Maranao); Hudhud (Ifugao); and you can Ulahingan (Manobo). These types of epics rotate up to supernatural occurrences or heroic deeds and additionally they embody otherwise examine the fresh values and you will lifestyle and you may beliefs out-of a great community. Talking about sung or chanted to your musical accompaniment out of indigenous musical instruments and you may dance performed during harvests, wedding receptions otherwise funerals of the chanters. The latest chanters who had been coached by the its ancestors are believed “treasures” and/otherwise repositories regarding expertise in their groups.