Biag ni Lam-ang

Biag ni Lam-ang (The emotional state of Lam-ang) is an epic verse of the Ilokano people from the Ilocos section of the Philippines. Recited and written in the original Iloko, the poem is believed to be a composite crap of various poets who passed it on through the generations, and was first base transcribed around 1640 by a blind Ilokano bard named Pedro Bu heapeg. Lam-ang is an extraordinary being, manifesting when he pay offs to speak in his early years, and so enabling him to choose his own name.His adventures begin when his father, seize Juan, set out for a battle simply never returned. At barely nine months, Lam-ang goes to search for Don Juan in the highlands where the latter was said to cede gone. Aware that her child was a blessed, stupendous creature, his start Namongan allows him to go. Lam-ang then goes off in search of his father, leaving his grieving mother behind. When Lam-ang arrives at the place where Don Juan had disappeared, he is enraged to see his fath ers 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 not receive an answer. Instead, the chieftain of the settlement tells him to leave under pain of pang the same fate as his father. Lam-ang defies the carefulness and bravely fights the chieftain and his tribesmen. The hero emerges taking from the battle with little effort, avenging his murdered father. Fom this story, we can realize how the love of a give-and-take to his father and