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The Maragtas is a work by Pedro Alcantara Monteclaro titled (in English translation) History of Panay from the first inhabitants and the Bornean immigrants, from which they descended, to the arrival of the Spaniards. The work is in mixed Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a languages in Iloilo in 1907. It is an original work based on written and oral ...
According to the Maragtas, Datu Makatunaw is the ruler of Borneo and a relative of Datu Puti who seized the properties and riches of the ten datus. According to Augustinian Friar Rev. Fr. Santaren's version of Maragtas (1858) Datu Macatunao [Notes 2] is labelled as the “sultan of the Moros”. [4] [5] [11]
A woman at the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival. Jose Marco wrote about the Code of Kalantiaw in his 1917 book Historia Prehispana de Filipinas ("Prehispanic History of the Philippines") where he moved the location of the Code's origin from Negros to the Panay province of Aklan because he suspected that it may be related to the Ati-atihan festival.
The festival is also linked to the epic Maragtas. The epic claims that a group of 10 Malay chieftains, led by Datu Puti, fled the island of Borneo in the 13th century and landed on the island of Panay. Datu Puti made a trade with the Ati people and purchased the lowlands for a golden salakot, brass basins and bales of cloth. They gave a very ...
The Binirayan Festival commemorates the legend of the arrival of the ten Bornean datus on the island of Aninipay now known as Panay. (See the legend of Maragtas.)As Governor Evelio B. Javier, the Father of Binirayan Festival, reminded the Antiqueños during the earlier celebrations, "let us gather the strands and memories of our past, as we look back with pride, that we may look ahead with ...
In a 2001 International conference presentation on 'The Philippine Judicial System', Dr. Raul Pangalangan, Dean, College of Law from the University of the Philippines said, "[...] all ancient written laws of the Filipinos were lost with the exception of the Code of Maragtas and the Code of Kalantiaw, both from Panay Island."
Kumintang (Baybayin: ᜃᜓᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜅ᜔) or Comintan in Spanish orthography, was a precolonial Philippine polity (bayan) situated north of the modern-day downtown of Batangas City in Southern Luzon, around the Calumpang River.
Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of 12,011 km 2 (4,637 sq mi) and a total population of 4,542,926, as of 2020 census. [4]