Bikol and Tagalog Me Back
11/17/202331 min
Oh Muses! Help us in our travels to the Philippines to tell some Filipino legends from the Tagalog and Bicol regions. We encounter arguing pixie sisters, many dialects, strategic lullabies and why it’s never a good idea to sleep on the job.
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First 90 secondsKenny Curtis· Host0:00
The stories featured in Greeking Out are usually original adaptations of classic Greek myths. This week's story features arguing pixie sisters, many dialects, strategic lullabies, and why it's never a good idea to sleep on the job.
Speaker 10:13
Greeking Out, the greatest stories in history were told in Greek mythology. Greeking Out, gods and heroes, amazing feats. Listen and you'll see, it's Greeking Out.
Kenny Curtis· Host0:29
Yep, it's field trip time again here at Greeking Out, and this time we are going to the other side of the planet. We are traveling all the way to Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
Tori Kerr· Co-host0:40
The nation of the Philippines is made up of 7,641 different islands. It is the sixth largest island nation in the world, and there are over 170 languages spoken in the Philippines.
Kenny Curtis· Host1:00
[laughs] That's amazing, and it's very important to keep that in mind as you listen to our stories today. Since the Philippines is a country made up of different islands, they all had slightly different cultures, and some of these cultures didn't interact with each other until more modern times. So this means that some of the regions of the Philippines have different languages, different religions, and different folktales. Today, we're going to tell you stories from two different regions of the Philippines.
Tori Kerr· Co-host1:28
Tagalog