Mapeh 4

• Kadayawan Festival


  Celebrated in Davao, comes from the word "madayaw" meaning good, valuable, superior, or beautiful
• Kadayawan Festival


  • Held every 3rd week of August
  • A celebration to thank Bathala (God) for the good harvest of fruits and orchids
  • Includes Agongan Ug kulintangan event (a concert where indigenous Mindanao instruments are presented)
  • Includes Lumagnang Kagikan (indigenous people's festivals)
  • Includes Sayaw Mindanao (indigenous dances)
  • Includes Floral Float parade with Koral themed floats
• Dinagyang Festival


  Celebrated in Iloilo, Hiligaynon word meaning "merrymaking"
• Sinulog Festival


  Celebrated in Cebu, Cebuano word "sulog" meaning "water current movement"
• Masskara Festival


  Celebrated in Bacolod, means "festival of smiles"
• Bambanti Festival


  Ilocano word for "scarecrow", celebrates the farmers' best friends
• Lanzones Festival


  Celebration of the bountiful harvest of Lanzones fruits, famous in Camiguin
• The Halad

  Event where/when the floral float parade caps the celebration with floral themed floats
• Ibalong festival

  One of the youngest festivals in the Philippines
• Batlog

  Warrior who KIILED Opon
• Handyong

  Defends their land from oppressors (one of this opressor is ORYOL, a serpent-siren.)
• Bantong

  Friend of Handyong
• Ati-Atihan festival

  Celebrates the feast of the Child Jesus
• Ati-atihan means "be like the Atis or the Aetas."
• Aetas

  They are the earliest inhabitants of panay island.
• Atihan groups dance to the chants of "Hala Bira"
• Sinulog Festival

  • Held every 3rd Sunday of jan during the national feast day of the Sto. Niño

  • the natives practiced animism
• Moriones Festival

  • The word morion refers to the headgear worn by roman soldiers

  • Moriones refers to the festival wherein participants are dressed and masked to resemble roman soldiers.
• Sublian of Batangas

  Two week celebration held in batangas city, culminates on the 23rd of july each year
• Sublian comes from the word "subli" a name of a local dance accompanied by drums and chants.
• Komedya/Moro - Moro

  They depict the same story (a conflict between Christians and Muslims with the muslims converting to Christianity in the end.)
• Araquio

  A festival theater activity based in Peñarada in Nueva Ecija
• The Christians are led by Reya Elena and Harling Constantino
• Hermanos and Hermanas take turns
• Vicente Barrentes

  A spanish scholar
• Doreen Fernandez - Western Theater
• Theater


  Defined as a mimesis of l
• Diwata rituals


  Ask their highest ranking deity, Mangindusa & other gods, as well as the spirit of their ancestors, for a good harvest and taking care of well-being
• Atang-atang ritual


  • Features bamboo raft on the ground with sacrificial offerings
• Mimetic dances


  • Considered as proto-dramas, imitations of the movements of animals, plants, and human movements
• Idaw


  1. Performed by warriors before going to war

  2. Believed to be led by a bird to victory