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TRIVIA About The Characteristics Of The Igorot
TRIVIA About The Characteristics Of The Igorot
Igorot have one of the world's most extensive oral legal traditions: Hudhud chants of the Ifugao, which consist of narrative chants, were inscribed on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2008.
Igorots are always thinking about the future. Igorots always save something for the future. They are not one day millionaires. An Igorot man will work hard and save because he understands that nothing in this world is permanent. He will always consider his family's future.
Natural resources abound in the Cordillera region. It is particularly well-known for its massive gold deposits, virgin pine forests, and fertile soils and water sources that have enabled its people to sustain agriculture on mountainside rice terraces.
Their CULTURE and CHARACTERSITICS
Their CULTURE and CHARACTERSITICS
The Igorot are large in stature, have mongoloid eyes, aquiline nose, and are effective farmers. They refer to themselves as Itneg, though the Spaniards called them Tingguian when they came to the Philippines because they are mountain dwellers.
Cultural elements common to the Igorot peoples as a whole include metalworking in iron and brass, weaving, and animal sacrifice. They believe in spirits, including those of ancestors, and have complex rituals to propitiate them.Â
They socialize by They use to perform particular traditional dances during these celebrations. During a ceremony known as ulpi performed in March, Igorot leave the terraces for a few days and socialize, take care of relationship, smoke and drink a palm liquor called bayah.
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