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Si Tungkung Langit ay inilalarawan bilang makapangyarihang diyos na maylikha ng lahat. Ang kaniyang kapangyarihan ay lumikha at isaayos ang sansinukob. Siya rin ang lumikha ng mga silesitiyal na bagay katulad ng mga bituin sa langit, ang araw at ang buwan. Sabi sa alamat ay gawa ang mga ito sa alahas ng kaniyang asawang si Alunsina na lumisan dahil sa isang hindi pagkakaunawaan sa pagitan nilang dalawa. Siya ay sinasamba ng mga taga-Visayas, partikular na ang mga Hiligaynon at Waray.

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Kung sa Luzon ay mayroon tayong Bathala, sa Visayas naman ay mayroong Tungkung Langit. Si Bathala ay ang pinakamakapangyarihang diyos at manlilikha ng lahat. Habang si Tungkung Langit ay diyos ng langit. Sila ay mayroong iba't ibang pinagmulan, hindi bahagi ng banal na herarkiya ng paglikha, at nakatuon sa kalikasan at moralidad. Si Alunsina ang naging kasangga ni Tungkung Langit. Parehas ang kanilang layunin na bumuo ng isang maayos na mundo. Sa simula hanggang huli ng kanilang pagsasama, naging inspirasyon pa rin ni Tungkung Langit si Alunsina sa kaniyang mga likha. Pinapakita nito na ang kasangga ay hindi lamang nagbibigay ng suporta, pagmamahal, at motibasyon sa likod ng bawat gawain, kundi aktibong gumagawa rin.

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Si Tungkung Langit ay isang makapangyarihang diyos. Siya ay masipag, responsable, at mapagmahal na asawa ni Alunsina. Ayaw niya ng kaguluhan kaya nagsikap siyang ayusin ang gulo sa mundo. Ginagamit niya ang kaniyang kapangyarihan sa mabuti katulad ng kagustuhan niyang bigyan ang mundo ng kaayusan. Ngunit sa kabila ng lahat ng kabutihan na kaniyang ginawa, ang pagtatalong nangyari nina Tungkung langit at Alunsina ay nauwi sa pagpapairal ng kaniyang galit kaysa sa pag-unawa. Sa kaniyang padalos-dalos na aksyon agad niyang pinalayas si Alunsina at siya’y nagsisi agad. Ipinakita na si Tungkung Langit ay may pagka-impulsibong katangian na naging dahilan ng kanilang paghiwalay.

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LIDER: HURTADO, Rance Maverick

MGA KAPANGKAT:

BRAGAS, Skye Almari

MONTANO, First Amriel Kholeen

ABILAGOYO, Gaira Ven Jamarica

SABIO, Breanna Denise

PASCUAL, Angelo Gabriel

ROMAN, Mico Cedric

MGA SANGGUNIAN:

1. https://www.aswangproject.com/tungkung-langit-alunsina/

2. https://www.scribd.com/doc/129229001/Alamat-Ni-Tungkung-Langit

3. https://scontent.fmnl30-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/299621439_399364155671085_4522680721032503765_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=6ee11a&_nc_eui2=AeHjKRUZ4XdlM_CREZ0FNvliHOYj64Xzs3Qc5iPrhfOzdP_nTPAzFMmpYxmmmH1c5YAMeU_elhkTUmkOBV8bPyNA&_nc_ohc=jQ8aNPqMpJYQ7kNvwHnJ4cR&_nc_oc=Admv9KE-uz2mufHzRN1R3hEw536RGsNhJDBhUV90okNQzPjB6q1K3QytvT9C4orkGeA&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fmnl30-1.fna&_nc_gid=aTSgapcQmNC6HSRormZWGA&oh=00_AfOLAcF8Zg95yRUhjmRiKJG3MNya2ZEiTsBn0yAqIH84Pw&oe=6866F543

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5. https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/028/100/982/large/klinton-padojinog-1.jpg?1593483111

6. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mythology/images/f/fb/Bathala.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170124202305

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Who the heck are Tungkung Langit and Alunsina?
I received an interesting question from someone the other day. "Good day! I'm a bit confused, the first generation Visayan gods to third generation gods are from the Visayan Creation Stories - which are Kaptan, Maguayan, Lihangin, Lidagat etc. Then there's Tungkung Langit and Alunsina, so, there are other Visayan Creation Myths?"

The answer is yes! As with everything in Philippine Mythology, the explanation is rooted in a confusing and complex history. Much of what we know today about ancient Visayan Beliefs is due to Spanish documentation. Miguel de Loarca was one of the first Spanish conquistadors to arrive in the Philippines and was the author of Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas. This is one of the main texts used to piece together pre-Spanish Beliefs. The familiar Visayan Creation story with Kaptan and Maguayan was documented by John Maurice Miller in Philippine Folklore Stories (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1904). It wasn't until 1955, when Filipino anthropologist F. Landa Jocano became interested in native folklore and travelled the hinterlands of his home island of Panay (collecting folk songs, stories, and riddles) that we learned of the creation story involving Tungkung Langit and Alunsina.

The tragedy in this is that there are probably many societies throughout the Visayas that had their own variation of the creation story that has simply been lost to time - or perhaps waiting to be discovered. Many blame the Spanish for the disappearance of ancient beliefs, but then must also use the Spanish documentation to understand it. Not unlike the Aztec and Inca civilizations - that once flourished in Central and South America - we know that Spanish explorers precipitated their destruction. However, it is also through the Spanish documentation that those belief systems have been pieced together to create a cultural pride and ethnic identity.

The beauty of the Tungkung Langit and Alunsina creation story is that it was documented by a Filipino anthropologist wanting to better understand his culture. More so that the story, along with the Hinilawod Epic, survived Spanish colonization and Catholicism, yet shows ties to other cultural influences. This is important because it gives us an idea of how pre-Spanish Animism, Indianized beliefs, and Islam spread through the relatively peaceful manner of migration and trade. Sure there was war, but it was never about imposing beliefs.

Tungkung Langit and Alunsina?

TUNGKUNG LANNGIT: A popular deity of the Suludnon people of Panay. He is their version of the 'creator' who made the world out of primordial chaos. In other Visayan pantheons, Tungkung Langit was a lesser deity and brother of Panlinugon, god of earthquakes.

ALUNSINA: A prominent goddess in the Suludnon people's Pantheon of Gods. Alunsina, also called " Laon-Sina" is considered to be the 'virgin goddess' of the eastern skies and the wife of Tungkung Langit ("Pillar of Heaven"). In a Panay version of the Creation Myth Alunsina's name has been translated as the "Unmarried One", " The One from Foreign skies" and " One who is Foreign". Alunsina also appears in the Hinilawod Epic.

Tungkung Langit and Alunsina Creation Myth

In the beginning everything was shapeless and formless. The earth, the sky, the sea, and the air were almost mixed up. In a word, there was only confusion. Then from the depth of this formless void there appeared the god Tungkung Langit and the goddess Alunsina.

It was not known just where these two deities came from but it is related by old Bisayan folk that Tungkung Langit fell in love with Alunsina. After he had courted her for many years, they married and made their home in the highest part of heaven. There the water was always warm and the breeze was forever cool. In this place order and regularity began.

Tungkung Langit was a loving, hard-working god. He wanted to impose order over the confused world. He decided to arrange the world so that the heavenly bodies would move regularly. On the other hand, Alunsina was a lazy, jealous, selfish goddess. She sat at the window all day doing nothing.

Sometimes she would leave her home, sit down by a pool near the door, and comb her long, jet-black hair all day long. One day Tungkung Langit told his wife that he would be away for some time. He said he must make time go on smoothly and arrange everything in the world.

When he was gone, Alunsina set the breeze to spy on Tungkung Langit. Tungkung Langit found this out and he became very angry. After he returned home, he told her that it was ungodly of her to be jealous since there were no other gods in the world except the two of them.

Alunsina resented this reproach, and they quarreled. In his anger, Tungkung Langit drove his wife away. No one knew where she went. Several days later, Tungkung Langit felt very lonely. He realized that he should not have lost his temper. But it was too late.

Once vibrant with Alunsina's sweet voice, his home became cold and desolate. In the morning when he woke up, he would find himself alone. In the afternoon when he came home, he would feel the same loneliness creeping deep in his heart because there was no one to meet him at the doorstep or soothe the aching muscles of his arms.

For months, Tungkung Langit was in utter desolation. He could not find Alunsina, try hard as he would. And so, in desperation, he decided to do something in order to forget his sorrows. For months and months he thought, but his mind seemed pointless; his heart weary and sick. He needed something to ease his lonely world.

One day, while he was sailing across the regions of the clouds, a thought came to him. He would make the sea and the earth, and the earth and the sea suddenly appeared. However, the sombre sight of the lonely sea and the barren land irritated him. So he came down to earth and planted the ground with trees and flowers.

Then he took his wife's treasured jewels and scattered them in the sky, hoping that when Alunsina would see them she might be induced to return home. The goddess's necklace became the stars, her comb the moon and her crown the sun. However, despite Tungkung Langit's efforts, Alunsina did not come back.

Until now, some elders of Panay say Tungkung Langit lives alone in his palace in the skies. Sometimes, he would cry out his pent-up emotion and his tears would fall down upon the earth. When it thunders hard, it is Tungkung Langit sobbing, calling for his beloved Alunsina to come back, entreating her so hard that his voice reverberates across the fields and the countryside.
Source: Alunsina with Tungkung Langit adapted by F. Landa Jocano in Outline of Philippine Mythology
ALSO READ: VISAYAN Origin Myth: Creation of the Sun and Moon

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Tungkung Langit & Alunsina | The 'Other' Visayan Creation Story * THE ASWANG PROJECT

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Who the heck are Tungkung Langit and Alunsina? I received an interesting question from someone the other day. "Good day! I'm a bit confused, the first generation Visayan gods to third generation gods are from the Visayan Creation Stories - which are Kaptan, Maguayan, Lihangin, Lidagat etc.

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Gawa nila: HURTADO, Rance & PASCUAL, Angelo

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Gawa nila: HURTADO, Rance & PASCUAL, Angelo

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1. TRIVIA

Sinasabing hanggang ngayon ay iniintay parin ni Tungkung Langit ang pagbabalik ni Alunsina. Siya ay mag-isang nakatira sa kaniyang palasyo sa kalangitan at kapag kumikitlad at umuulan ay umiiyak siya at hinahanap ang kaniyang minamahal. Ang boses nya ay umaalingawngaw sa mga bukid.

2. BUOD

Ang kuwentong "Tungkung Langit at Alunsina" ay nagpapakita ng kaalamang bayan sa anyo ng alamat na nagpapaliwanag sa pinagmulan ng mundo, araw, buwan, at mga bituin. Ipinapakita rin dito ang paniniwala ng mga sinaunang Pilipino sa mga diyos at diyosa may kapangyarihang lumikha ng daigdig. Mayroon ding pamahiin sa kuwento, tulad ng paniniwalang ang kulog at ulan ay luha ni Tungkung Langit dahil sa kanyang matinding kalungkutan. Naglalaman din ito ng aral tungkol sa pag-ibig, selos, at pagsisisi, na bahagi ng karunungang-bayan na nagtuturo ng tamang asal. Ang lahat ng ito ay naipapasa mula sa matatanda sa pamamagitan ng pasalitang tradisyon, na mahalagang bahagi ng ating kultura.

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