You can also read more information about Daguio to elevate your unit. In spite of being in love with his wife, Awiyao feels the need to marry again to have a son. At his second marriage celebration, Awiyao goes to check on Lumnay, knowing she is upset. Awiyao thought the answer to Lumnay's sorrow would be to have her join the other women during the wedding dance. Lumnay was in fact at his wedding, but left.
She could not stand the idea of her husband marrying another woman because she could not give him children. Schedule a free Guided Session with us to become a Storyboard That pro! Each version of Storyboard That has a different privacy and security model that is tailored for the expected usage.
All storyboards are public and can be viewed and copied by anyone. He has no child that will inherit his possessions unlike the other man. Awiyao also loved Lumnay but his decision was clouded by their tradition. Culture and tradition really have a big impact on our society today. In the end of the story, Lumnay goes to the mountain stream which is said to be very cold.
The first dance between the bride and groom is the most awaited moment for the newly wed as well as the guests. It shows the love and unity between the new couple. The way of dancing, expression and the dancing steps reveal the harmony between the bride and groom. It is an expression of their unending love. Jaime Sabido. Lucille Gaid.
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The Philippine islands were settled by various migrants from Southeast Asia for centuries. These peoples built up a number of different cultures and clan-based social structures on the many islands of the archipelago. In the s, Spain colonized the islands, spreading Christianity and the Spanish language. During World War II, the islands were occupied by the Japanese until gaining their independence in The Igorot people maintained many of their traditional cultural practices through the late 19th century.
Even today, dance and gangsa music form an important part of their celebrations 6. The Wedding Dance by: Amador T. Daguio 8. In spite of being in love with his wife, Awiyao feels the need to marry again in order to have a son. At his second marriage celebration, Awiyao goes to check on Lumnay, knowing she was upset.
Awiyao thought the answer to Lumnay's sorrow would be to have her join the other women during the wedding dance. Lumnay was in fact at his wedding, but left. She could not stand the idea of her husband marrying another woman because she could not give him children. He has now married Madulimay in the hope of having a son.
And if Awiyao's second marriage will not work he will come back to Lumnay's arms again. They should follow their tribe's custom and on the part of Awiyao he shows that he really wanted to have a child to follow his name but there is a bit hesitance on Lumnay's part. Only she was absent. And yet was she not the best dancer of the village? Did she not have the most lightness and grace? Could she not, alone among all women, dance like a bird tripping for grains on the ground, beautifully timed to the beat of the gangsas?
Did not the men praise her supple body, and the women envy the way she stretched her hands like the wings of the mountain eagle now and then as she danced?
How long ago did she dance at her own wedding? Tonight, all the women who counted, who once danced in her honor, were dancing now in honor of another whose only claim was that perhaps she could give her husband a child.
It is not right! How can anybody know? It is not right," she said. Suddenly she found courage. She would go to the dance. She would go to the chief of the village, to the elders, to tell them it was not right. Awiyao was hers; nobody could take him away from her. Let her be the first woman to complain, to denounce the unwritten rule that a man may take another woman.
She would tell Awiyao to come back to her. He surely would relent. Was not their love as strong as the river? She made for the other side of the village where the dancing was. There was a flaming glow over the whole place; a great bonfire was burning. The gangsas clamored more loudly now, and it seemed they were calling to her. She was near at last. She could see the dancers clearly now.
The man leaped lightly with their gangsas as they circled the dancing women decked in feast garments and beads, tripping on the ground like graceful birds, following their men. Her heart warmed to the flaming call of the dance; strange heat in her blood welled up, and she started to run. But the gleaming brightness of the bonfire commanded her to stop. Did anybody see her approach? She stopped. What if somebody had seen her coming?
The flames of the bonfire leaped in countless sparks which spread and rose like yellow points and died out in the night. The blaze reached out to her like a spreading radiance. She did not have the courage to break into the wedding feast. Lumnay walked away from the dancing ground, away from the village. She thought of the new clearing of beans which Awiyao and she had started to make only four moons before.
She followed the trail above the village. When she came to the mountain stream she crossed it carefully. Nobody held her hand, and the stream water was very cold. The trail went up again, and she was in the moonlight shadows among the trees and shrubs. Slowly she climbed the mountain.
When Lumnay reached the clearing, she cold see from where she stood the blazing bonfire at the edge of the village, where the wedding was. She could hear the far-off clamor of the gongs, still rich in their sonorousness, echoing from mountain to mountain. The sound did not mock her; they seemed to call far to her, to speak to her in the language of unspeaking love.
She felt the pull of their gratitude for her sacrifice. Her heartbeat began to sound to her like many gangsas.
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