4TH Topic - Gamaba
4TH Topic - Gamaba
MANLILIKHANG BAYAN
AND THEIR
CONTRIBUTION TO
PHILIPPINE ARTS
LITERATURE
GINAW BILOG
• Is a Hanunuo
Mangyan poet from
Mansalat, Mindoro
• Is an advocate of
preserving the
traditional form
of his tribe called
“Ambahan”
AMBAHAN – is a kind
of poem consisting
of seven –syllable
lines which most of
the time contains
messages of love
and friendship. This
poem is passed on
from generation to
generation using
singing the lines or
etching them on
GINAW BILOG
• He kept the ambahan
recorded both in
bamboo tubes and old
notebooks
• He kept even the oldest
ambahan passed on to
him by ancestors and
promoted them to other
Mangyans as to preserve
the oral tradition.
FEDERICO
CABALLERO
• Is a Panay-Bukidnon epic chanter who
preserved his community’s oral
tradition by documenting epics of
his ancestors that are in near danger
of disappearance.