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    1) Tungkung Langit and Alunsina were the first two gods who brought order to the formless world by creating the sky, earth, sea, and regular movement of heavenly bodies. 2) Tungkung Langit fell in love with and married Alunsina, but she became jealous and lazy. After a fight where Tungkung Langit drove her away in anger, he was overcome with loneliness without her. 3) In an attempt to get Alunsina to return, Tungkung Langit created plants, trees, stars, the moon and sun from her jewels. However, she never returned and Tungkung Langit remains alone in

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    1) Tungkung Langit and Alunsina were the first two gods who brought order to the formless world by creating the sky, earth, sea, and regular movement of heavenly bodies. 2) Tungkung Langit fell in love with and married Alunsina, but she became jealous and lazy. After a fight where Tungkung Langit drove her away in anger, he was overcome with loneliness without her. 3) In an attempt to get Alunsina to return, Tungkung Langit created plants, trees, stars, the moon and sun from her jewels. However, she never returned and Tungkung Langit remains alone in

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    1) Tungkung Langit and Alunsina were the first two gods who brought order to the formless world by creating the sky, earth, sea, and regular movement of heavenly bodies. 2) Tungkung Langit fell in love with and married Alunsina, but she became jealous and lazy. After a fight where Tungkung Langit drove her away in anger, he was overcome with loneliness without her. 3) In an attempt to get Alunsina to return, Tungkung Langit created plants, trees, stars, the moon and sun from her jewels. However, she never returned and Tungkung Langit remains alone in

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    Tungkung Langit and Alunsina Once vibrant with Alunsina’s sweet voice, his home became cold and

    (Myth, Pre-colonial Period) desolate. In the morning when he woke up, he would find himself alone; and in the
    Anonymous afternoon when he came home, he would feel the same loneliness creeping deep
    Adapted by F. Landa Jocano in his heart because there was no one to meet him at the doorstep or soothe the
    aching muscles of his arms.
    In the beginning there was no sky or earth, only a bottomless deep and a
    world of mist. Everything was shapeless and formless the earth, the sky and the sea For months, Tungkung Langit was in utter desolation. He could not find
    were almost mixed up. In a word, there was confusion. Then, from the depths of Alunsina, try hard as he would. And so, in desperation, he decided to do
    this formless void, there appeared two gods, Tungkung Langit ("Pillar of the Sky") something in order to forget his sorrows. For months and months, he thought. His
    and Alunsina ("The Unmarried One). mind seemed pointless; his heart weary and sick. But he must do something about
    his lonely world. One day, while he was sailing across the regions of the clouds, a
    It was not known just where these two deities came from but it is related thought came to him. He would make the sea and the earth. The earth and the sea
    by old Bisayan fol that Tungkung Langit fell in love with Alunsina. After he had suddenly appeared. However, the somber sight of the lonely sea and the barren
    courted her for many years, they got married and made their home in the highest land irritated him. So he came down to earth and planted the ground with trees
    part of heaven. There the water was constantly warm and the breeze was and flowers.
    constantly cool. It was in this place where order and regularity began. 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.
    Tungkung Langit was loving,hard-working god. He wanted to impose order The goddess's necklace became the stars, her comb the moon and her crown the
    over the confused world. He decided to arrange the world so that the heavenly sun. However, despite all these Alunsina did not come back.
    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 Until now, some elders in Panay say Tungkung Langit lives alone in his place
    go down the house, sit down by a pool near the doorsteps, and comb her long jet- in the skies. Sometimes, he would cry out his pent-up emotion and his tears would
    black hair all day long. 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
    One day, Tungkung Langit told his wife that he would be away from home reverberates across the fields and the countryside.
    for some time. HE said he must make time go on smoothly and arrange everything
    in the world.

    When he was gone, Alunsina sent 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 because 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.

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