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'The Life of Lam-ang') is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines. It is notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded in writt form, and was one of only two folk epics documted during the Philippines' Spanish Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong.
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As oral literature, the poem is believed to have originated in pre-colonial times, evolving as it is passed on from poet to poet and geration to geration.
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The poem's first transcription is sometimes attributed to the blind Ilocano poet-preacher Pedro Bucaneg, but historian E. Arsio Manuel instead attributes its first writt documtation to Fr. Blanco of Narvacan, working with the publicist and folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes.
However, it is unclear whether this transcription refers to an extant copy of the Biag ni Lam-ang text. Some texts, such as Celedonio Aguilar's Readings in Philippine Literature ev state that this transcription occurred in 1640
Instead, historian E. Arsio Manuel attributes the first writt documtation of Biag Ni Lam-ang to the parish priest of the municipality Narvacan Fr. Gerardo Blanco and to publicist and folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes. It was Fr. Blanco who st the text of the poem to De Los Reyes, who th published the text, in Ilocano, along with a Spanish prose translation, in his paper, the El Ilocano, 1889 to 1890.
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Lam-ang is an extraordinary being, wh he was born, he was already able to speak, thus abling him to choose his own name and told people to be called by this name.
His advtures begun wh his father, Don Juan, set out for a battle but never returned. Barely nine months, Lam-ang goes to search for Don Juan in the highlands where the latter was said to have gone. Aware that her child was a blessed, exceptional creature, his mother Namongan allowed him to go. Lam-ang th wt off in search of his father, leaving his grieving mother behind.
He saw his father beheaded and the head put on a spike. While the headhunters were celebrating, in his anger, he challged all of them to a duel. The headhunters threw spears at him, but he just catches them and throws them back to the headhunters. He defeated the headhunters, killed them all and took his father's head down to the plains.
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After he wt down the plains, he decided to bathe in the Amburayan River, which the local gals helped him bathe. The dirt was so gross that fishes and animals died upon contact of his bathwater.
Despite his mother's disapproval, he still follows his heart and set off again on another journey to his love. He faces one of Ines’ suitors and various monsters, but again is able to vanquish them with ease. Aiding him are his magical pets, a dog, and a rooster. The rooster flaps its wings and a house toppled over. This feat amazes everyone prest, especially Ines. Th, Lam-ang’s dog barks and the house rose up. Invited to lunch with the family of Ines, Lam-ang impresses her parts with his wealth and upon returning, he gives the family two gold ships.
After his death due to being eat by a huge fish, Lam-ang's bones are recovered and he is resurrected with the help of his magical pets. Ines is ordered by the rooster to wrap the bones with her tapis while the h flapped its wings and the dog growled. In an instant, Lam-ang is happily reunited with his wife.
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Biag ni Lam-ang, though dominated by action and tragedy, nonetheless contained some comedic points. A promint example is the sce in which Lam-ang was on his way home. He passes by the Amburayan River (idtified by some as the biggest river in Ilocos
) and decides to bathe. The dirt and blood that fell from his body th causes the death of the river's fish, crabs, and shrimp. As he is bathing, some maids who were prest at the river gladly attd to him.
The tale of Lam-ang, as a story passed on for gerations as oral literature and recorded well into the Spanish colonial period, is notable for incorporating Roman Catholic elemts into the story, such as referces by the characters of Lam-ang and Ines Kannoyan to marriage as a sacramt. Folklorist Mellie Leandicho Lopez notes that later versions of the epic differ from the early texts due to the addition of more Christian and Spanish elemts in the advtures of the Culture hero Lam-Ang.
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Although most of the thematic scholarship regarding the Biag ni Lam-ang have focused on the evolving Roman Catholic influces on the epic, some Philippine textbooks
Philippine anthropologists and historiographers such as F. Landa Jocano suggest that such Hindu influces probably arrived in the Philippines through the extsive trade that local cultures had with the Majapahit Empire during the 14th through 16th cturies,
Although earlier scholars such as Juan R. Francisco and Josephine Acosta Pasricha had suggested earlier dates for this influce, during the ninth to the tth ctury AD.
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In 2012, a film adaptation of the story of Lam-ang was made. Called Lam-Ang, the film starred Rocco Nacino and Rochelle Pangilinan. It was originally intded to be a TV series, but it was later decided to turn it into a film adaptation by Gabriel Lorzo Quizon instead.
In 2018, Biag ni Lam-Ang was illustrated as a single-panel narrative by Jill Arw Posadas for the Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan exhibition, chantmt.
In 2021, episode 3 of the revival of Legds of the Hidd Temple told the story of Lam-Ang and based its challges off of differt parts of that legd.