The Pintados Festival is a cultural-religious celebration in Tacloban based on the body-painting traditions of the ancient tattooed "
pintados
Visayans ( Visayan: ''mga Bisaya''; ) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao. When taken as a single ethnic group, ...
" warriors. In 1986, the Pintados Foundation, Inc. was formed by the people of Tacloban to organize this festival in honor of Sr. Santo Niño. Years later, it was merged with the Kasadyaan Festival which is always held on June 29.
History
"Pintados," or "painted people," is a term that refers to the native Filipinos who Spanish colonizers encountered in the 16th century.
Centuries of Spanish occupation affected Filipino culture and much of the history surrounding tribal tattoos is concentrated on the Visayan (including the people of Tacloban) and
Igorot peoples.
Due to their relative isolation, ethnic groups such as the
Ifugao
Ifugao, officially the Province of Ifugao ( ilo, Probinsia ti Ifugao; tl, Lalawigan ng Ifugao), is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Lagawe and it borders Benguet to the ...
have resisted Spanish
cooptation
Co-option (also co-optation, sometimes spelt coöption or coöptation) has two common meanings.
It may refer to the process of adding members to an elite Social group, group at the discretion of members of the body, usually to manage opposition ...
more so than others in the Philippines.
Events
The Pintados-Kasadyaan festival includes multiple events throughout the celebration. These events are called the Festival of festivals of Leyte, the Ritual Dance Presentation of Pintados Festival, and the “Pagrayhay” during the Grand Parade.
[: Ersa Joy L. Ortiz, Faith Joan P. Relampagos, Jyn Ruehn S. Pejana, Shene Mitchelle B. Siarot, Nino Aaron S. Tolo, Ruby S. Melchor, DBA, and Reynaldo B. Inocian, Ed. D.. (2017). “THE TRANSITION OF SINULOG DANCE FESTIVAL IN THE FACE OF MODERNIZATION.” International Journal of Research - Granthaalayah, 5(3), 293-309. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.478895.]
See also
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Sangyaw
Sangyaw Festival is a religious and socio-cultural event in the Philippines. It was revived in 2008 by the city government of Tacloban, Philippines. Sangyaw means "to herald news" in Waray language
Waray (also known as Waray-Waray or Bisaya/B ...
References
Cultural festivals in the Philippines
Visayan festivals
Culture of Leyte (province)
Tourist attractions in Tacloban
Christian festivals in the Philippines
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