From the chant of Ran Iraya tribe of Central Panay Island.
He was called the Lemur Man as the chant says. He was the great ancestor of the tribe who save his people from the annihilation of a preying alien race called Agalon Lemurs who landed on their island habitat 7,000 years ago.
The chant was performed every night by elderly chanters in the open ground of the tribe's village.The chanter of the night will sit at the center and the villagers will gathered around to hear the story of their race. The next night another chanter will perform the storytelling. They will alternately tell the story whom they memorized that was also passed to them by the previous generation of chanters of the tribe. It takes days before the the whole story will be completely told.
Day 1 chant.
The arrival of twin dragon called Bakunawa from the distant star Alunsina.
The Agalon Lemurs lived inside the dragons whose size is like a low-rise hill, a mile in length.
Day 2
Encounter with the Agalon Lemurs. An entity resembled that to a feature of human but four times bigger.
Day 3
Attack of the Agalon Lemurs
Day 4
Exodus of the tribe.
Day 5
The birth of Labaw Silagan - an Agalon Lemurs' son sired from the tribe's princess.
This is just the beginning of the epic. At the end the Agalon Lemurs were defeated. One group of workers who lived in one of the dragons rebelled against their superior and war erupted between the two faction of Agalon Lemurs.
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