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A. Folktale: Juan Pusong and His Father's Cows

The document provides two examples of literary genres - a folktale from the Visayan culture about a trickster boy named Juan Pusong, and an Igorot creation myth that describes the Great Spirit Lumawig creating the first people and giving them gifts and responsibilities. The folktale teaches readers about Filipino culture and values, while the myth shares the Igorot people's explanation for how the world began and human civilization developed.

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A. Folktale: Juan Pusong and His Father's Cows

The document provides two examples of literary genres - a folktale from the Visayan culture about a trickster boy named Juan Pusong, and an Igorot creation myth that describes the Great Spirit Lumawig creating the first people and giving them gifts and responsibilities. The folktale teaches readers about Filipino culture and values, while the myth shares the Igorot people's explanation for how the world began and human civilization developed.

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Lesson Title: LITERARY GENRES

Read the literary texts and then answer the questions after it.

A. FOLKTALE
Juan Pusong and His Father’s Cows (A Visayan Folktale)
One day Juan Pusong's father put his cows out to pasture. Juan slipped away from home and took
the cows into the forest and tied them there. When his father found out that the cows were missing, he
looked around for them. While looking, he ran into his son.
“Where did you come from?” he asked.
“I just came from school, Father. Where are you going?”
“I am looking for our cows.”
“Don’t tell me the cows were missing, Father!" said Juan.
By that time, everybody knew about Juan’s power as a seer (manghuhula). So, he took a little book
from his pocket and looked into it. He said, “Our cows are tied together in the forest.” So, his father went to
the forest and found the cows.
Later on, people would discover that Juan could not read even his own name. Consequently, his
father beat him for the trick he had played on him.

Question:
1. If you are the son in the story, would you do the same trick to your father/ mother? Why?
2. What does folktale tells the reader?

B. MYTH
NOTE: There are Philippine versions of the creation myth. The Igorot’s story tells that Lumawig the
Great Spirit created people. On the other hand, the Tagalog story tells that the first man and woman came
from a bamboo.
The Creation (An Igorot Myth)
In the beginning, there were no people on the earth. Lumawig, the Great Spirit, came down from
the sky and cut many reeds. He divided the reeds into pairs which he placed in different parts of the world,
and then he said to them, “You must speak.” Immediately the reeds became people, and in each place was
a man and a woman who could talk. However, the language of each couple differed from that of the others.
Then Lumawig commanded each man and woman to marry, which they did. By and by there were
many children, all speaking the same language as their parents. The children married and had many
children of their own. In this way, there came to be many people on the earth.
Now Lumawig saw that there were several things which the people on the earth needed to use, so
he set to work to supply them. He created salt and told the inhabitants of one place to boil it down and sell it
to their neighbors. However, the people could not understand the directions. The next time he visited them,
they had not touched the salt. So, he took the salt away from them and gave it to the people of a place
called Mayinit.
The people of Mayinit did as Lumawig directed. Because of their obedience, he told them that they
should always be owners of the salt and that the other peoples must buy of them.
Then Lumawig went to the people of Bontoc and told them to get clay and make pots. They got the clay,
but they did not understand the molding; the jars were not well shaped. Because of their failure, Lumawig
told them that they would always have to buy their jars, and he removed the pottery to Samoki.
Lumawig told the people of Samoki what to do, and they did just as he said. Their jars were well
shaped and beautiful. Then Lumawig saw that they were fit owners of the pottery, and he told them that
they should always make many jars to sell.
In this way, Lumawig taught the people and brought to them all the things which they now have.

Question:
1. Do you like the idea of Creation in the story? Does it relate to the Christian Bible? If yes, in what
chapter and verse do we find the same version of the story in the bible?
2. What does Myth tells the reader?

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