Biag ni Lam-ang

Biag ni Lam-ang (The Life of Lam-ang) is an epic poem of the Ilokano people from the Ilocos office of the Philippines. Recited and written in the original Iloko, the poem is believed to be a involved work of various poets who passed it on through the generations, and was first transcribed about 1640 by a blind Ilokano bard named Pedro Bucaneg. Lam-ang is an extraordinary being, manifesting when he pay backs to blab out in his early years, thus enabling him to choose his own name.His adventures begin when his get under ones skin, Don Juan, set out for a battle but neer returned. At barely nine months, Lam-ang goes to search for Don Juan in the highlands where the last mentioned was said to have gone. Aware that her child was a blessed, exceptional creature, his buzz off Namongan allows him to go. Lam-ang then goes off in search of his father, leaving his grieving convey behind. When Lam-ang arrives at the place where Don Juan had disappeared, he is enraged to see his fathers severed head atop a bamboo pole a scene he dreamt beforehand.Lam-ang demands to the local people why that had happened to his father, but does non receive an answer. Instead, the chieftain of the village tells him to leave under pain of crucifixion the same fate as his father. Lam-ang defies the caveat and bravely fights the chieftain and his tribesmen. The champion emerges victorious from the battle with little effort, avenging his murdered father. Fom this story, we can realize how the bed of a son to his father and