Presented by:

Merino, Maria Cristina

Sabilao, Rachel
Velardo, Rodelin
 Cagayan valley (Lambak ng Cagayan)

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Is a region of the Philippines, also designated in
Region 2. It is composed of five provinces, namely:
Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, and
Quirino. It has three cities; Cauayan City, Tuguegarao,
and Santiago City.
 “GADDANG”
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“Gaddang or Gadang derived from “Ga” meaning “heat” or fire dang
means burn “Gaddang means burn by heat”
The Gaddangs are found in northern Nueva Vizcaya, especially in
Bayombong, Solano and Bagabag on the western bank of the
Magat River; in Santiago, Angadanan, Cauayan, and Riena
Mercedes on the Cagayan river for the Christianized group; in
western Isabela, along the edges of Kalinga and Bontoc,in the
towns of Antatet, Dalig, and the barrios of Gamu and Tumaini for the
non-Christian communities.
 THE LEGEND OF THE
“MAGAT RIVER”
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CHARACTERS:
MAGAT- husband of the maiden,
Strong, handsome, tall, great, hunter.
MAIDEN- Wife of Magat, the beautiful girl, the
crocodile.
SETTING:
BAYOMBONG, FOREST CAGAYAN VALLEY.
-He was a great hunter and he love outdoor activities, he went to
the forest and he discovered a large stream he had ever seen.
-He saw a beautiful maiden bathing on the stream, he saved the
maiden from the snake.
-Magat fell in loved to the girl and ask her to be his wife, the girl
agreed for one condition.
-Magat wont able to meet the girl at noon, Magat had a
promised.
-Magat broke his promised and found out the secret of the girl.
-He saw a crocodile on the maidens bed believing that the -
crocodile ate his wife.
-He killed the crocodile and find out that the crocodile was his
wife.
-Magat drowned himself at the stream where he had first meet
his wife.
MAGAT RIVER
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 CORDILLERA TALE
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“The Giantess and the Three
children”
Retold by Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar- Cariño

CHARACTERS:
The three orphans
BEKAT- the giant
SETTING:
Bekat’s house, the childrens house, garden, forest, lake.
 Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar -
Cariño
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-Originally from Baguio City
Philippines.
- Professor of creating writing and
English.
- Director of the MFA creative writing
program at old Dominion University.
- Carlos Palanca memorial Award for
the literature in three genres (poetry,
nonfiction, and short fiction).
 There were three orphans who lived in
a small house that had a garden and
because they have no rice fields and no one
 that each night
hunt for them they decided
they would lay sharp shells and sticks
across their garden so that they could catch
an occasional wild boar for food. Even
though they caught a wily animal in their
front yard it would always be eaten by the
vultures and other animals because they
don’t have fire on which to roast meat. Only
the giantess Bekat had a fire.
The three children were thin and really
hungry. One day they had could stand it no
longer. They had justcaught a large boar in
their garden, and now they decided to ask
bekat for fire. Bekat is larger than the house
and the children tremble but tried not to
show it. Bekat says that they could get fire
but it has a condition to give bekat a hog for
exchange. The three children look at each
other and said that they will be hungry as
before when they will give bekat a hog.
They steal a fire from bekat’s house quietly. They roasted
the meat over their fire. However, bekat smelled their
cooking and followed the smoke to the children’s house.
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Bekat said “you took fire from me! You must give me part
of what you have to eat, or shall I roast you in my fire.”
The three children let bekat sit with them, bekat took their
food of baskets and took the charge of dividing the meat.
The bones and tough parts she dropped into the
children’s basket and the fat slices kept for herself. The
children looked at each other then one of them asked
bekat if she know how to swim. And the children
boastfully said that they can dive well. At the river. The
children dived into the water, then bekat go next. Bekat
had a difficult time coming up because she was so heavy.
The three children raced back to the house while bekat still
in the water. They emptied bekat’s food and put their meat
into theirs. They poured large stones into bekat’s basket and
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they hid on a branch of a tree growing near the river. When
bekat came back to the children’s house she picked up her
food basket and went home. When she open it to eat the
boar meat, she set up with great howl. The children trick her.
She looked for the three children and found them in the
branches of tree. Bekat laughed an evil laugh. She took an
axe on her pocket and started to hack the tree. The children
prayed. Oh! Kabunian let her not hit the tree instead let her
hit her leg. Bekat suddenly cut off her leg and died. That was
the end of the giantess of Bekat.
 THE RETURN
by: Edith L. Tiempo

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Edith L. Tiempo, poet,
fiction writer, teacher and literary
critic was a Filipino writer in the
English language. Tiempo was
born in Bayombong, Nueva
Vizcaya.
Studied at university of the
Philippines
Wife of Edilberto K. Tiempo
Awarded as Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards
 If the dead years could shake their skinny legs and run
As once he had circled this house in thirty counts,
He would go thru this door among these old friends and they would not shun
Him and the tales he would tell, tales that would bare more than spare
Testimony of willed wit and his grey hairs

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He would enter among them, the fatted meat about his mouth,
As he told of how he had lived on strange boats on strange waters,
Of strategems with lean sly winds,
Of the times death coughing like a sick man on the motors,
Their breaths would rise hot and pungent as the lemon rinds
In their cups and sniff at the odors
Of his past like dogs at dried bones behind a hedge,
And he would live in the whispers and locked heads,
Wheeling around and around and turning back was where he started:
The turn to the pasture, a swift streak under a boy’s running:
The swing, up a few times and he had all the earth he wanted:
The tower trees, and not so tall as he had imagined:
The rocking chair on the porch, you pushed it and it started rocking,
Rocking, and abruptly stopped. He, too, stopped in the doorway chagrined.
He would go among them but he would not tell, he could be smart,
He, an old man cracking the bones of his embarrassment apart.
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