Kapampangan Culture Intro

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KAPAMPANGAN CULTUREJojo DingalCollege of Education


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The Kapampangans live in theprovinces of Pampanga and someborder towns of Bataan(Dinalupihan and Hermosa) and

Tarlac (Bamban, Capas,Concepcion and TarlacCity). Pampanga, whichetymologically means "Pampang"or riverbank, is bounded on thenorth by Tarlac City and NuevaEcija, on the east by Bulacan,southeast by Manila Bay, on thesouthwest by Bataan and on thewest by Zambales.

The Kapampangans


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The province has a total land area of218,068 hectares representing 12 percentof Regions III total area. It is composed of21 municipalities with 538 barangays andone city. The total population (as of 1995census) is 1,635,767.


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The province of Tarlac, whose name wasderived from a talahib weed called"Malatarlac" is situated at the center of theCentral Plains of Luzon Island. It is

landlocked by four provinces of Region III,namely: Nueva Ecija (east), Pangasinan(north), Pampanga (south) and Zambales(west). It covers a territory of 305,345hectares.


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The province abounds in skilledlabor. Foremost of these are thewoodcarvers of Guagua; red clay pottersof Sto. Tomas; blacksmiths of Apalit andgiant lantern makers of San Fernando.


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The Clark Special Economic Zone alsoprovides a fine investment area.


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BELIEFS AND PRACTICES

Just like the other ethnolinguisticgroups, the Kapampangans have richcustoms and traditions governing therites of passage. Some of thesepractices are still being observednowadays.


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BIRTH PRACTICES

In one of the barrios ofGuagua, Pampanga, closerelatives of a woman who

is about to deliver a child,together with theirneighbor, make noise likeshouting, beating tin cansand explodingfirecrackers in order tohelp expel the fetusfaster.


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In manyKapampangan houses,the baby's baptismal

dress serves as asouvenir anddecoration for thesala. It is put on a

frame and hung in thesala like a picture.

Baptismal Rites Practices


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Courtship and Marriage The pamanhikan , where the male,with the permission of the parents, is to visit the girl in thelatter's house.


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Death and Burial. The wake (makipaglame) lasts forat least three days and two nights after whicheverybody participates in the libing (interment).


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MAL A ALDO

Pampanga is one of the provinces of thePhilippines with really colorful (and at timesbloody) Holy Week practices and rituals. It'squite close to Manila too. Which is why it's agood place to experience Holy Week, Mahal na

Araw or Mal a Aldo .


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HOLY WEDNESDAY

The highlight of the day would be theHoly Wednesday Processions. Severaltowns have very elaborate carrozas ,

particularly Bacolor, Sasmuan,Guagua, Santa Rita, Betis and SanFernando.


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HOLY THURSDAY

Pampanga is quite (in)famous for Holy Week

flagellation. And this usually peaks on HolyThursday and Good Friday. There are othertraditions including Dakit Cordero in Mabalacat(2:30 p.m.) and Santo Tomas (4 p.m.). and thePasyon Serenata in Brgy. San Basilio, Santa Riat(8 p.m. to 12 midnight) and Sitio Maligaya in SanBasilio (also 8 p.m. to 12 midnight).


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LUBENAS

Lubenas came from the word novena, which meansnine days, referring to the nine-day simbang gabi. Butwhile the rest of the country was content withattending dawn masses for nine consecutive days,Kapampangans went a step farther by holding aprocession on the eve of every simbang gabi, i.e.,they had a procession after dinner, which means theyslept late, and then woke up before dawn for thesimbang gabi (or simbang bengi in Kapampangan).


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NUNU.AN OLD MANWHORESIDES INMOUNDS

SUPERNATURAL BELIEFS


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Mangkukulam feasts on flesh andblood of men/women;

possessing dreadful evilpower


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Tianak / Pantyanak areevil spirits who inhabitforests and bamboothickets. They are usuallydescribed as taking theform of a baby left in theforest to lure unsuspectingvictims.


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Dwende are spiritthat assume theform of man,

usually describedas tiny beings.


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Kapre are nocturnalgiants that live atop tallthick trees. Usuallydescribed as harmless,they nevertheless playtricks on unsuspectingvictims. They are said tosmoke cigar and are 30

to 50 feet tall.


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Magkukutud arebeings endowed withsupernatural powersto separate theirupper body from theirlower body.

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