Talk:Ibong Adarna

message: That narration was incomplete. Once I finished reading my copy of this korido, I will edit this page. Can someone help me in editing this page?---WikiPoTechizen 04:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
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message: I'm not sure if Francisco Balagtas nor Jose de la Cruz created this great masterpiece. In our reference book "Ibong Adarna" by Tomas C. Ongoco, it states that the story was created by an unknown author living in Europe which was brought by the Spaniards to Mexico and finally to the Philippines. The story became a folklore or folktale if I'm not wrong 'cause as I've said earlier, the author was virtually unknown. Do you have any reference book for Ibong Adarna fellows? I think that the information in this article might not be correct. Kampfgruppe (talk) 14:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if it were folklore, the question is still who wrote the Tagalog stanzas? Further, if it was brought first to Mexico, where is the evidence of the existence of this story in Mexican folklore?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.106.139.92 (talk) 18:22, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
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message: needs a lot of work. The tournament between the princesses with the whippings and such, none of that made any sense to me, so I pretty much gave up at that point. Good luck to anyone who can make it better! 68.153.29.23 (talk) 00:07, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
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message: King Fernando and his wife Queen Valeriana rule the Kingdom of Berbanya. They have three
children: Don Pedro, Don Diego, and Don Juan. One night, King Fernando dreams of Don Juan
being murdered by two traitors (which would turn out to be his two older sons), and was so
overcome with fright and became so severely depressed that he would not even eat nor rest.
Due to that, He became ill and none of his constituents are able to cure him. An old doctor
advises that the Ibong Adarna, a mythical bird, would be the only creature that could restore his
health by its marvelous songs. He initially sends out Don Pedro to look for the Ibong Adarna.
After three months of wandering through the forests and thickets, Don Pedro arrives at a golden
tree, known as Piedras Platas. At the foot of the tree, he fell down due to hunger and thirst; But
what he does not know is that the golden tree is where the Ibong Adarna roosts for the night. By
nightfall, the bird flew into the air and sung the first of its seven songs; its melody is so softly
sweet that everyone, including Don Pedro, is lulled into a profound sleep. After emitting its
seventh song of the night, the bird excretes droppings on the sleeping prince that turned him
into stone.
With the disappearance of Don Pedro, King Fernando then sends his second son Don Diego to
search for the bird. Don Diego undergoes the same hardships (but ventures for five months, two
more than Don Pedro) and meets the same fate as his older brother. After three whole years
without hearing any more news, Don Juan, the youngest and most favored son is (unwillingly, by
King Fernando) sent forth also. Don Juan, however, has the fortune to meet on his way an old
hermit who is impressed by the virtues and good manners of the young prince. The old hermit,
knowing the mission on which Don Juan embarks, puts him on guard against the treacheries of
the bird.
The hermit told Don Juan of the golden tree where the famed bird roosts every night after
singing seven songs, warning of the spells in its seven songs which lulls the hearer to sleep and
the excretion which petrifies anyone. He provides Don Juan with a knife and calamansi lemons,
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both of which Juan must use to cut seven wounds on his hands and distill them into the juice of
the fruits to create pain that will prevent him from being lulled by the seven songs. The hermit
then gave Juan a golden rope that the prince must use to bind the bird's legs while it is asleep
and place it inside a cage. Before Juan leaves, the hermit provides him with a bucket which hemust use to scoop water from a well near the tree and pour it over his two petrified brothers to
restore them. Don Juan did as was bidden and soon finds himself in possession of the desired
bird and on his way back to his home country with his two brothers, Don Pedro and Don Diego.
Don Juan's venture in search of the Ibong Adarna lasts for four months in total.
However, on the way back, with his brothers and the Ibong Adarna in tow, Don Juan's older
brothers grow envious; after all, Don Juan has obtained what they were not able to. Therefore,
the two older brothers conspired between themselves to do away with him. Don Pedro
suggested that they should kill him, but Don Diego, who was less brutal, convinced Pedro that it
was sufficient to beat him, which they did. After beating Don Juan to whom they owed their lives,
they left him unconscious in the middle of the road as the two brothers continued on their way
to the palace. Once in the palace, they convinced the king that they never knew what happened
to Don Juan, but the bird was disheveled and did not sing for it awaits Don Juan—its true captor.
Don Juan woke eventually, but could not move due to the pain caused by the beating. He prayed
fervently for the health of the king and the forgiveness of God to his brothers. The same hermit
who gave him advice before catching the bird arrives and heals him magically. Upon return to the
palace, everyone was happy except his two brothers, worried that Don Juan might tell the king
what had happened. The bird then started to sing. Its enchanted song revealed to the king that
Don Pedro and Don Diego beat up Don Juan and that he was the true captor of the bird.
The two were sentenced to being cut off from the royalty and banished, but they were
reprieved due to Don Juan being forgiving and asking to give them another chance.
They were given one, however, any consequent fault would mean death. They enjoyed the bird,
they did not treat it as a pet, but rather like a person. So they made the three princes watch over
the bird for 3 hours each every day. Don Pedro wanted revenge, so he conspired again and forced
Don Diego to go on board with it yet again. They planned to trick Don Juan into thinking that
under his watch, the bird escaped. They successfully did it and Don Juan set out to find the bird
before the king wakes up. The king finds the bird missing and so is Don Juan, so he asked the two
to find the bird and their brother.
They found Don Juan at Mt. Armenia and decide to settle there, on the beautiful mountain. They
lived happily forgetting trouble from the past. They find a well and decide to explore the inside,
arguing about who goes first. They settle for the idea that Pedro, the eldest, be the first to
descend by means of a cord lowered by the two brothers who remain above; but he had scarcely
gone a third of the way when he feels afraid and gives the sign for his two brothers to pull him
out of the well. Presently, Diego was let down but he too could not go farther down than half ofthe way. When it was Juan's turn to go he allowed himself to be let down to the lowest depths
of the cistern. There the prince discovered two enchanted palaces, the first being occupied by
Princess Juana who informed him she was being held prisoner by a giant, and the second by
Princess Leonora, also the prisoner of a large seven-headed serpent. After killing the giant and
the serpent, the prince tugged on the cord and soon came up to the surface of the earth with
the two captive princesses, whom his two brothers soon wanted to take away from him. Diego
desired Princess Juana for himself and Pedro wanted Princess Leonora. Before the parting,
however, Leonora discovered that she left her ring in the innermost recesses of the well. Juan
voluntarily offered to take it for her but when he was halfway down, the two brothers let go of
the rope he was descending causing him to fall to the bottom of the well. Not long after,
wedding bells were rung in the palace; Diego married Princess Juana. Before casting her lot with
Prince Pedro, Princess Leonora requested her marriage to him be delayed for a term of seven
years because she might still have a chance to unite with Don Juan.
Don Juan, thanks to Leonora's enchanted ring found in the well, could avail himself of the help of
a wolf which cured him of his wounds, fix his dislocations, and bring him to the medicinal waters
of the Jordan, and took him out of the well. Already torn between all hope of ever finding the
Adarna, Don Juan resolved to return to the Kingdom. But to his confusion, he was unable to find
his way. No one could tell him precisely which was the way that would lead him to the kingdom of
his father. While sleeping under a tree, the Adarna awakens him and convinces him to turn his back
on Leonora because Maria Blanca, the daughter of King Salermo in Reino de Los Cristales was
better. He came to a hermit that consulted all of the animals from the surrounding areas, but
none of them could tell the prince the direction towards Reino de Los Cristales. But the king of
all these animals, a swiftly soaring eagle (real name Olicornio), having compassion for his troubles,
offered to take the prince to wherever he desired. After an epic flight, the prince and the eagle
came to a distant crystal lake, whose shores they landed to rest from their long and tiresome
flight. Then the eagle related to his companion the secrets of the crystal lake. This was the
bathing place where, in certain hours of the day, the three daughters of the most powerful and
most feared king of the surrounding regions used to dive into the water and swim; and for this
reason, it was not proper for the prince to commit any indiscretion if he desired to remain and see
the spectacle of the bath. Don Juan remained and when the hour of the bathing arrived he saw
plunging into the pure crystal water the figures of the three most beautiful princesses whom his
sinful eyes had ever seen. He then secretly hid and kept one of the princess's dresses. When the
princess noticed the theft, her two sisters had already gone. The prince hurriedly ran to her and
on his knee begged her pardon and placed at her feet her stolen dress and at the same time
poured forth the most ardent and tender professions of love. Pleased by his gentleness andgallant phrases, the princess also fell in love with him; but she advised him that it would be
better for him to leave before her father would come to know of his intrusion. If he did not do so
he would be converted into another piece of stone for the walls of the enchanted palace in
which they live, in the same way, that all the other suitors who aspired for their hands had been
transformed. On being informed of the adventure of the bold prince, the king sent for him.
Don Juan, who would risk everything for the privilege of seeing his beloved, presented himself to
the king in spite of the princess' warning. The king, greatly impressed with the youth's tact and
self-possession, chose to give him a series of tests both gigantic and impossible for ordinary
mortals. After completing these trials the king was satisfied and offered Don Juan his daughter.
However, the princess, fearing that her father might resort to a new trick to foil their happiness,
ordered the prince to direct himself to the royal stables in order to take the best horse and have
him ready for them to flee on that same night. Unfortunately, the prince in his hurry, took the
wrong horse and the king came immediately went in pursuit of the fugitives. The king, riding the
best horse, pursued them tenaciously but through the use of cunning magic, the princess helped
them to outrace the king.
When at last they found themselves safe and free, it did not take them long before they could
reach the portals of the Berbanian Kingdom. But the prince, alleging that he should have such
preparations duly made for entry into the royal palace as are appropriate for her category and
dignity, left Doña Maria on the way promising to return for her once he had informed the
committee to receive her. Once in the midst of the happiness of palace life, Don Juan soon
forgot his profession of love to Doña Maria. He became dazzled by the beauty of Princess
Leonora who had been waiting for him during all the days of his absence and he sought her hand in
marriage while Doña Maria was impatiently waiting for his return. When she came to know of the
infidelity of Don Juan, the pilgrim princess made use of the talisman which she always carried
with her and adorned it with the most beautiful royal garments and carried in a large coach drawn
by eight sorrel-colored horses with four palfreys, she presented herself at the door of the
palace practically inviting herself to the royal wedding of Prince Juan and Princess Leonora.
Out of respect for a so beautiful guest from foreign lands and on the occasion of the wedding
itself, there were celebrated tournaments, in one Doña Maria succeeded in inserting as one of
the number dance of a negrita and a negrito created from nothing through her marvelous
talisman. In the dance the negrita carried a whip in her hand and with it she pitilessly lashed her
negrito partner, calling him Don Juan, while she proceeded to remind of all the vicissitudes of
fortune undergone by him at the side on Doña Maria, the part which was played by the whipping
negrito: the scene of the bath, the different tests to which he had been subjected by her father, flight of both that was full of accidents, and his cruel abandonment of her on the way. Every
crack of the whip which fell on the shoulders of the negrito was felt by Don Juan as if it was him
who was being whipped. After all this, Don Juan finally remembered Doña Maria. He then gave
Princess Leonora and the kingdom of Berbania to Prince Pedro while he and Doña Maria returned
to Reino de los Cristales. When they came back, they found the kingdom in a mourning state,
following the deaths of Doña Maria's father and sisters. The kingdom rejoiced when they came
back and crowned them their king and queen. 180.194.203.39 (talk) 03:57, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
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message: A presention about Reyna 2001:4450:469F:400:98A1:F22A:A9BC:74C7 (talk) 07:38, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
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message: How many pages does Ibong Adarna book have? 112.207.109.221 (talk) 23:58, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
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message: Seth's 175.176.73.123 (talk) 12:11, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
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message: The final sentence of the first paragraph of the lede reads "The tale is also known as '."  Methinks something is missing from the end. Anyone know what? Bricology (talk) 07:24, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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message: What is the story in ibong adarana 119.92.206.11 (talk) 15:18, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
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message: ibong adarna (Summary)Exposition rising action climax falling action conclusion 124.106.108.155 (talk) 15:23, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
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