Pintado-Kasadyahan Festival
Location: Tacloban City Philippines
Lasting a whole month, Tacloban City holds the Pintados-Kasadyahan
Festival culminating on June 29. The current festival also includes the
Leyte Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals, the Pagrayhak Grand Parade, and
the Pintados Ritual Dance Presentation. The festival commemorates and
fleshes out how the Spaniards saw the early Filipinos when they arrived
in Leyte: bodies filled with tattoos and holding weapons which were
previously heated in open fire. In fact, pintados is how the
tattoo-covered natives were called, and that’s how the festival got its
name.
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