October marks World Food Day, International Day of Rural Women, Peasant Month and Indigenous Peoples’ Month in the Philippines. No better time than now to feature this song 'Pagay' (Rice) about traditional rice-growing practices of Cordillera indigenous farmers.
Here is a meaningful quote about the value of growing rice from Marcus Bangit’s oggayam (a traditional Kalinga chant):
“Arig na ket maysa a pagay,
Binaddekan da ket nalaylay.
Naregregpet nu maidisso
Daga nga entay tinartaripato.
Sigurado nga agtubo
Sabong na ket nalangto
Agbunga ket rinibribo.
Ay ay ogayam … ma gayamen.”
Rice, when trampled on, withers.
Rice thrives when grown on land that we nurture.
It bears abundant flowers and grains in its thousands.
Music and lyrics by Salidummay Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordilyera.
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