The headhunters throw spears at him, but he just catches it and throws it back to them. While the headhunters are celebrating, in his anger, he challenges all of them to a duel. He sees his father beheaded and the head put on a spike. Lam-ang then goes off in search of his father, leaving his grieving mother behind. Aware that her child was a blessed, exceptional creature, his mother Namongan allows him to go. At barely nine months, Lam-ang goes to search for Don Juan in the highlands where the latter was said to have gone. His adventures begin when his father, Don Juan, set out for a battle but never returned. Lam-ang is an extraordinary being, manifesting when he begins to speak in his early years, thus enabling him to choose his own name. Epilogue: The Death and Restoration of the Hero (lines 1301вЂ“1477).Obstacles: Sumarang and Saridandan (lines 587вЂ“724).Prologue: The Birth of Lam-ang (lines 5вЂ“108).Blanco who sent the text of the poem to De Los Reyes, who then published the text, in Ilocano, along with a Spanish prose translation, in his paper, the El Ilocano, 1889 to 1890. Gerardo Blanco and to publicist and folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes. Arsenio Manuel attributes the first written documentation of Biag Ni Lam-ang to the parish priest of the municipality Narvacan Fr. Some texts, such as Celedonio Aguilar's Readings in Philippine Literature even state that this transcription occurred in 1640 -long after Bukaneg is believed to have died. However, it is unclear whether this 'transcription' refers to an extant copy of the Biag ni Lam-ang text. The poem is sometimes attributed to the blind Ilocano poet-preacher Pedro Bucaneg, who supposedly dictated it so that it could be written down. 3 Notable themes and storytelling elementsДЄs oral literature, the poem is believed to have originated in pre-colonial times, evolving as it is passed on from poet to poet and generation to generation.2.5 Lam-ang's death and magical resurrection.

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