These are traditional stories occurring in a timeless past. They involve supernatural elements and are beyond the frontiers of logic.

A simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.

It express norms or codes of behavior, community beliefs or they instill values by offering nuggets of wisdom in short, rhyming verse.

Traditional narrative or collection of related narratives, popularly regarded as historically factual but actually a mixture of fact and fiction.

These are war songs in English.

These are wedding songs in English.

These are love songs in English.

These are chants in English.

The Pre-colonial period of the Philippines started when Ferdinand Magellan rediscovered the archipelago.

The Literature of the Pre-colonial period of the Philippines were mostly of Oral Tradition.