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Unlike the Ambahan whose length is indefinite, the Tanaga is a seven-syllable quatrain. Poets test their skills at rhyme, meter and metaphor through the Tanaga because is it rhymed and measured, while it exacts skillful use of words to create a puzzle that demands an answer. It was a dying art form, but the Cultural Center of the Philippines ...
Sa Aking Mga Kabata. " Sa Aking Mga Kabatà " (English: To My Fellow Youth) is a poem about the love of one's native language written in Tagalog. It is widely attributed to the Filipino national hero José Rizal, who supposedly wrote it in 1868 at the age of eight. [1]
Used before the anglicized version of a word or name. For example, "Terra Mariae, anglice, Maryland". animus in consulendo liber: a mind unfettered in deliberation: Motto of NATO: anno (an.) in the year: Also used in such phrases as anno urbis conditae (see ab urbe condita), Anno Domini, and anno regni. anno Domini (A.D.) in the year of our Lord
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa. Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang lupa (English Translation: Love for One's Homeland) is a poem written by hero Andres Bonifacio. The said poem was published in the first issue of Kalayaan. The poem exhorted Filipinos to join the crusade to achieve real Philippine independence. Bonifacio used the initials "A.I.B." that stands ...
The earliest printed book in a Philippine language, featuring both Tagalog in baybayin and transliterated into the Latin script, is the 1593 Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Española y Tagala. The Tagalog text was based mainly on a manuscript written by Fr. Juan de Placencia. Friars Domingo de Nieva and Juan de San Pedro Martyr supervised the ...
Died. c. 1630. Occupation. Poet. Pedro Bucaneg (March 1592 – c. 1630) was a Filipino poet. He is considered the " Father of Ilocano literature ." Blind since birth, he is the believed to have authored of parts of the Ilocano epic Biag ni Lam-ang ( Life of Lam-ang ). [1] A street inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) complex in ...
1925. Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang ( Tagalog, literally "The Stories of Grandmother Basyang") is an anthology of short stories written by "Lola Basyang," the pen name of Severino Reyes, founder and editor of the Tagalog magazine, Liwayway. The original magazine stories have since been adapted into books, comics, television, and film.
In Sambal mythology, Malayari is chief god of the Sambals, who predominantly live in Zambales. He is the creator of all things, and the omnipotent ruler over life and death. Malayari is a compassionate and loving god, sending rain, health, wealth and abundance to those who deserve it, but punishing those who ignore his commandments. ¶.