Provinces of eastern visayas NOTHERN SAMAR, EASTERN SAMAR, SAMAR, SOUTHERN LEYTE EASTERN LEYTE, LEYTE, BILIRAN, Literature written in Waray and Cebuano by the writers in the region Waray Literature that has been collected,recorded and documented by scholars and researcher

1. EASTERN VISAYAS
LITERATURE

2. EASTERN
VISAYAS
MAP

3. PROVINCES OF EASTERN VISAYAS
• NOTHERN SAMAR
• EASTERN SAMAR
• SAMAR
• SOUTHERN LEYTE
• EASTERN LEYTE
• LEYTE
• BILIRAN

4. CITIES OF EASTERN VISAYAS
• Baybay
• Borongan
• Calbayog
• Catbalogan
• Maasin
• Ormoc
• Tacloban

5. EASTERN VISAYAS ATTRACTION:
San Juanico Bridge is part of
the Pan-Philippine Highway
and stretches from Samar to
Leyte across the San Juanico
Strait in the Philippines. Its
longest length is a steel
girder viaduct built on
reinforced concrete piers,
and its main span is of an
arch-shaped truss design

6. Lake Danao is a guitar-shaped
lake on the island of Leyte in
the Philippines. The lake is
covering an area of 148
hectares. It is situated in the
2,193 hectares Lake Danao
Natural Park, which also
includes the Amandiwin
mountain range

7. Cuatro Islas is a group of
islands belonging to the
municipalities of Inopacan
and Hindang, in the
province of Leyte,
Philippines.

8. One of the prettiest beaches in the
Philippines is tucked along the coast of
Northern Samar province, away from
prying eyes, nosy and noisy beach
bums, and greedy tourist trap
operators.
The pink, powdery sand beach is
surrounded by sparkling waters that
alternately turn emerald green and
turquoise. Coconut trees swaying in the
gentle breeze dot the seashore. Black
rocks and unusual stone formations
separate the pink beach from its
neighbor, a privately owned beach of
white but not-as-fine sand.

9. Canigao is an islet located
in the Philippines, near
the municipality of
Matalom, Leyte. The area
is known for abundant
fishing grounds and
scenic coral reef areas
suitable for diving

10. DANCES
• Tinikling, the Philippines' national dance is
folkdance that originated from the region. But
the most popular cultural dance among
Warays is the Kuratsa, danced during feast
celebrations and special gatherings. The Leyte
Kalipayan Dance Company, a local cultural
group, held highly successful performances
around the world.

11. MUSIC
•Waray people are music lovers whose
folkloric music are mostly ballads in form,
famous of which is Dandansoy while Iroy
nga Tuna (Motherland) is a patriotic song.

12. FESTIVALS
Karatong Festival of Dulag,
Leyte (September 7)
The Karatong Festival is a
dance revelry that depicts the
legend of the karatong, which
is a bamboo device used in the
16th century to informing the
townspeople of incoming
Moro marauders.

13. • .
Padul-ong Festival of Borongan, Eastern
Samar (September 7 or 8)
The Padul-ong Festival is a mythical
presentation of how the image of the Blessed
Virgin Mary was mysteriously transported to
Borongan from Portugal in far-away Europe.
The festival also highlights its connection to
the Lady in White who used to frequent the
Hamorawon Spring, blessing its water with
the miraculous power to heal the locals.

14. Literature of Eastern Visayas
•Literature written in Waray and Cebuano by the
writers in the region
•Waray Literature that has been
collected,recorded and documented by scholars
and researcher

15. • When a spanish Jesult by the name of Fr. Ignatio Francisco
Alzina documented the poetic forms such as candu,haya,
ambahan, canagon, bical, balac,siday and awit.
• He also described the susumatan and pasong early forms of
narratives
• During the Spanish period the balac was called the amoral

16. • During the American occupation is was renamed
ismayling a term delivered from the English word
“smile”
• The same balac and ismayling has been reinvented
to express anti –imperalist sentiments where the
woman represents the motherland and the man,the
patriot who professes his love of country

17. WORKS OF EASTERN VISAYAS LITERATURE
THE LEAST MIRACLE (Carlos A. Angeles)
This was a sonnet about a father and a child who had
a leg impairment.They went to doctor to cure their
child but nothing had happened. So their lastresort
was to go to Faith Healers. Luckily, the boy was
healed. His father wasamazed in turn of events after
his son was healed. Sonnets basically depict the
relation between two different things in orderto send
some message about them. And in that poem, these
are the relationbetween the healing of his son and
how it had brought back the faith in his father.

18. FLOWER OF MAY (Francisco
Arcellena)

19. GROUP 1
Renziel Tabano
Kirji Irinco
Cedric Dela Rojo
Rafael Arresgado
Abbegail Dagohoy
Angelica Kris Bai

20. THANK YOU!