Kawayan & Probinsyana

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Probinsyana ~Bamboo
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Tagalog:
probinsiyana
probinsiy´ana Sp n/adj. female from the province, provincial
kawayan
kaw´ayan n. bamboo
bamboo
bamboo n. 1 kawayan 2 bamboo grove: kawayanan 3 split bamboo: tinilad na kawayan, patpat, palatpat

peg
peg n. a pin or small bolt for vari- ous uses: pakong kahoy (kawayan), talasok, paltak · v. 1 to fasten or hold with pegs: magtalasok, ta- lasukan, italasok 2 to take a person down a peg or two, to humble him: humiya, hiyain

wave
wave n. 1 a moving ridge or swell of water: alon 2 a waving: kaway, pagkaway, wagayway, pagwawa- gayway 3 a curve or series of curves: alon, alun-alon, lundo, lundu-lundo 4 curl, esp. of hair: kulot, pagkakakulot · v. 1 to move with a waving motion: pumagaspas 2 to move back and forth: kumaway, ikaway, kumampay, ikampay, mag- wagayway, iwagayway 3 to signal by waving: kumaway, kawayan 4 to move back and forth as a flag in the air: magwagayway, wuma- gayway, iwagayway 5 to make curly: magkulot, kulutin, kulutan

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The Bamboo Microscope



Si Malakas at si Maganda
(The strong in the company of the beautiful
and the beautiful in company with the strong.)
Philippine Mythology
from -- Wikipilipinas - the hip'n free Philippine Encyclopedia
Creation Story:
(Like many other countries, the Philippines also has its own versions of how the world was created. One of the best-known accounts of creation is the story from the Tagalog people.)
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One day, Aman Sinaya decided to send her tempests into the Sky to cause a wild commotion. In order to stop her, Bathala threw giant boulders that came from atop of the mountains. It created thousands of islands onto the surface of the Sea, which became the Philippine archipelago. Amihan, the Northeast Wind in the middle of the two realms, decided to stop the battle once and for all by taking the form of a bird. She then flew back and forth between them. This made the Sky and the Sea closer than before. At the point where the two realms met, both deities agreed to end the fight and become friends.
As a sign of friendship, Bathala planted a seed underneath the ocean floor. It soon grew into a bamboo reed, sticking out of the edge of the Sea. Amihan gazed upon it one day and heard voices, coming from inside the bamboo. "Oh, North Wind! North Wind! Please let us out!" the voices said. She pecked the reed once, then twice. All of a sudden, the bamboo cracked and slit open. Inside were two human beings; one was a male and the other was a female. Amihan named the man "Malakas" (Strong) and the woman "Maganda" (Beautiful). She then flew them onto one of the islands where they settled, built a house, and had millions of offspring that populated the Earth.

Then, the time finally came when the children were too numerous for Malakas and Maganda to control. One day, they were ordered to work in the fields, but instead, they did nothing. When the parents arrived home, they noticed that their instructions weren't followed. Asking for some guidance, they prayed to the great god, Bathala, and he came to them and said, "Let your anger be shown to everyone and it shall make them into what they are meant to be." So out of their anger, they grabbed spoon ladles and began to give blows to everyone.

All the children started running away. Some hid under the bamboo tables and became slaves. A few of them went inside the burning cauldron and turned into the Aetas of the islands. Others climbed up the rooftop and became the datus of the villages. Still others climbed to the tops of the trees and were believed to have become the commoners. Those who fled to the mountains turned into hunters and the ones who ran to the seashore turned into fishermen.
Tagalog:
ganda
gand´a ­ maganda (ma-) adj. beau- tiful, pretty, nice
beautiful
beautiful adj. 1 very pleasing to the senses or mind: maganda 2 pretty: marikit 3 lovely: kaibig-ibig 4 charm- ing: maalindog, kaakit-akit because conj. 1 for the reason that: sapagkat, pagkat, kasi, sa dahilang, dahil sa 2 by reason of: dahil sa, dahilan sa 3 since, whereas, in as much as: yamang, yayamang 4 for this reason, for that reason, on this account: palibhasa
lakas
lak´as ­ Malakas (ma-) adj. strong, powerful, loud. Malakas siyang kumain. He is great at eating. Tumawa siya nang malakas. He laughed aloud.
strong
strong adj. 1 having much force, power, etc.: Malakas 2 physically strong: malakas, malusog 3 mate- rially strong: matibay, matatag 4 morally strong: matibay, matapat 5 powerful: makapangyarihan 6 concentrated: matapang