The Flood and Other Creation Legends

Because of progress, new inventions and ideas are produced. New words are then created to go with these innovations. Sometimes words are "blended" to create new words.

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​Blended Words

Long ago, when people ask questions about the world, their elders would tell them fantastic stories as an explanation.

These stories are called "Legends".

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Legends

Guide Questions

1) Who are the characters in each story?

2) Where did each story take place?

3) What problems did the characters encounter in each story?

4) What are the three legends trying to explain?

5) How did each story end?

Read pp. 184-188 to find the answers.

Answers

1) There is Lumawig, his deer, and his dog, the sun, the moon and their children, and Toglai, Toglibon and all their children.

2) The Flood Story happened in a world without mountains, The Sun and the Moon happened at their home, and The Origin happened in the Philippines long ago.

3) The first story had a flood, the second story had Sun being stubborn and the third story had a drought.

Answers

4) The three legends are trying to explain how the world came to be, the shape of the land in the first story, the movement of the sun and moon in the second, and the people in the Philippines in the third story.

5) The first story had dry land and mountains appear, the second story had the sun and moon chasing each other across the sky, and the third had many different people living all over the Philippines as well as how they have come to be called their names.