Me and my friends will go to Malaybalay this afternoon and we will going to witness the wonderful Kaamulan festival in Bukidnon. I’m going to bring all my outdoor gadgets there and all will be going perfect…
One of the Philippine Festival is The Kaamulan, started in 1974. It was the fiesta of Malaybalay, May 15, in honor of San Isidro Labrador. The town’s vice mayor then, Edilberto Mamawag, thought of inviting some indigenous Bukidnon tribespeople to town.The name Kaamulan is Binukid for “social gathering.” There are eight indigenous groups in Bukidnon: the Matigsalug, Umayamnon, Ilianon, Pulangihon, Talaandig, Tigwa Manobo,Western Bukidnon Manobo and the Higaunon who are also found in the hinterlands of Agusan del Sur, Misamis Oriental and Lanao del Norte.
In other Festival, they have to stage-direct schoolchildren and make them appear as natives, in Kaamulan it is the real indigenous peoples who attract the crowds. So many tourist would also visit on this festival.
CEREMONY:
There is the pangampo (general worship), the tagulambong ho datu (a political ritual marking one’s formal ascendancy to the datuship), the panumanod (spiriting ceremony), the panlisig (edging away of evil spirits), another ceremony called pamalas and a native horse fight called kagsaba ho kabayo.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:24 am
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