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Question: Isn't "Bakunawa" a real word? Should there be another

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Author Photo by: Zandero
Sep 16 2020, 7:45pm CST ~ 3 years, 6 mos ago. 
Question: Isn't "Bakunawa" a real word? Should there be another entry for that, or is "dragon" more often used than "bakunawa"?
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Author Photo Bituingmaykinang
Sep 17 2020, 8:48am CST ~ 3 years, 6 mos ago. 
Bakunawa isn't a "dragon" but a kind of sea serpent. It is Visayan than Tagalog. The Tagalog equivalent is "Lawo".
 
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Author Photo BoraMac Badge: Supporter
Sep 17 2020, 10:40am CST ~ 3 years, 6 mos ago. 
Bicolano Myths
 
BAKUNAWA the god of the deep and cause of the eclipse
 
Popularly known as the enemy of Haliya.Bakunawa was a god worshipped by the Bicolanos and a demon feared by the Visayans and by the Tagalog people.
 
Bakunawa was a beautiful diwata a goddess in the sea, some say she was a naga and was the most powerful. In Bicolano myths, the Bakunawa was a goddess punished for her arrogance and greed for coveting the moons. She was punished to lose her beauty and forever remain into a dragon-like being that guards the gates to the underworld.
 
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Author Photo yeahyeah
Sep 30 2020, 10:03pm CST ~ 3 years, 6 mos ago. 
In the Bicol region, there is a place called Naga City. Filipinos have been colonized and propagandize to the extent that many have no idea of their own culture and identity pre Spanish (* which by the way couldn't be further from southeast asia).
 
"Naga" is folklore in southeast asia of a serpent like creature and the moon or pearls- something circular.... the depiction is a serpent and a moon or pearl. This same folklore (same in Indonesia) exists in the Bicol region - Philippines. Some (ignorance) think Naga refers to Narra wood (hello - ?!) - I have no idea how that disinformation started, maybe by the Spanish and Internationalists who were / are dead set on fortifying pre Colonial brainwash in the Philippine psyche. Culturally, ethnically, and linguistically - the Philippines is related to Indonesia and Malaysia --- and anyone can see that (language, folklore, religion...).
 
N-A-G-A
 
"NAGA" is the word you are looking for.
 
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Author Photo yeahyeah
Sep 30 2020, 10:08pm CST ~ 3 years, 6 mos ago. 
@Bituingmaykinang Naga is often referred to as a dragon, but Southeast Asian (Indonesia etc) reflect Naga as a sea serpent.
 
The folklore in Bicol is similar to the Naga in Indonesia -- there is even reference to Naga in Naga City (Bicol region).
 
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Author Photo BoraMac Badge: Supporter
Oct 01 2020, 1:43am CST ~ 3 years, 6 mos ago. 
"Bakunawa was a beautiful diwata a goddess in the sea, some say she was a "naga""
 
N-A-G-A
 
So you are saying the language is "NAGA"
 
Then from wikipedia...QUOTING NA LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG
 
"Bikol" is a language spoken by people in the Bicol region on southeastern Luzon in the Philippines. It was highly influenced by the Spanish language. The Bicol Languages are a group of central Philippine languages spoken mostly on the Bicol Peninsula of the island of Luzon and also parts of Catanduanes and Burias Islands and Masbate province. There is a dialect continuum between the Visayan languages and the Bicol languages; the two together are called the Bisacol languages. Central Bicol or commonly called as Bicol-Legaspi or Bicol-Naga is the most spoken language in the Bicol region of southern Luzon.
 
Here Identified as Bicol-NAGA?
 
Ahhhhhhh ulkay...NAGA...not Bikol. Maraming salamat poh!
 
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