FILIPINO TRICK OR TREAT. In this file photo, Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bataan is reviving the dying folk tradition of ‘pangangaluluwa’ where a group of carolers visits households to sing songs related to saints and the dearly departed. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts has cited ‘pangangaluluwa’ as proof of Filipino belief in the afterlife as well as the existence of relations between the living and the souls of the dead.
The Tagalog concept of “alay” – offering food to the dead – has its own equivalent among the Ilocanos and the Cebuanos , among others, and is usually composed of rice cakes or kakanin such as biko or suman, fruits, pansit, and the favorite dishes of the departed loved ones. The celebratory nature of Undas, however, is more similar to Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos or All Soul’s Day, also known as Day of the Dead, which is marked every Nov. 2 and combines both Aztec and Catholic rituals.
The Kankanaey group of people in Sagada, Castro said, had been offering food for their departed “ninuno” or ancestors even before the concept of Undas every Nov. 1 was observed in the country. In Southern Tagalog, the practice is called “pangangaluluwa” where people dressed in white shirts sing songs and carols while asking for coins. The coins collected will then be used to buy candles for common gravestones in cemeteries which serve as markers for unknown, unclaimed or no longer visited graves.
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