THE ETHNIC TRADITION The Filipino's earliest ancestors travelled ...

Id cano sangasangadom,
wada’s inan-Talangey ay bayaw ay nasakit,
ay isnan nadnenadney
San bebsat inan-Talangey, maid egay dda iyey
Bayaw issan masakit, ay si inan-Talangey
Sa’t ikikidana dapay anocan nakingey
Wada pay omanono ay daet obpay matey.
San Nakwas ay nadiko, ay ba’w si inan-Talangey
Dadaet isangadil, issan sag-en san tetey
Da’t san ab-abiik na napika et ay omey
Bayawan ay manateng ab’abiik di natey
Aydaet
mailokoy si’n anito’y sinkaweywey
Nan danen daet mattao bayaw ya mabaginey.
A long time ago, it is said, there was Inan Talangey
Who had been sick for a long time
The brothers and sisters of Inan Talangey,
they did not bring
To the sick who was Inan Talangey
But she was lying in bed and yet was very fussy
And at length she finally died.
After she died, she Inan Talangey
They tied her to the death chair near the ladder
Then her soul started to go
To join the souls of the dead
She went with a long line of anitos
Their path was grassy and among the mabaginey.
Narrative songs are represented by the ballads and the epic (the latter to be treated
in a separate section). The ballads narrated particular episodes or events, whereas
the much larger epic was a series of ballads about the many exploits of one hero or
a set of heroes.
The poetic narrative of the Parang Sabil of Sulu narrates the heroic selfimmolation
of Muslims who wished to die as witnesses to their faith and be borne
into heaven by a white stallion. Outstanding among these narratives is the Tausug
Parang Sabil of Abdulla and Puti Isara in Spanish Times.
Similar to the Parang Sabil are ballads or folk hero stories in chanted poetry
from the Amburayan-Bakun river valleys on the western sub-Cordillera in the
Ilocos inland, like the Allusan, the Da Delnagen ken Annusan Lumawig, and
the legend of Indayuan on the founding of the town of Sugpon by the Amburayan
River between Ilocos Sur and La Union in northwestern Luzon.
Called a sarita (story), the Indayuan, which comes from an inland culture called
Bag-o, is sung in the musical chant style called baguyos, which is used for singing
hero stories. The story purports to be about the lovely Indayuan, but it
eventually gets caught up in the history of an exodus of groups of refugees.