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seven syllables, all lines rhyming. the Southeast Asia, a culture with traces of Indian, Arabic,
and, possibly Chinese influences. Their epics, songs, short
The most appreciated riddles of ancient Philippines are poems, tales, dances and rituals gave them a native Asian
those that are rhymed and having equal number of syllables perspective which served as a filtering device for the
in each line, making them classifiable under the early Western culture that the colonizers brought over from
poetry of this country. Riddles were existent in all Europe.
languages and dialects of the ancestors of the Filipinos and
cover practically all of the experiences of life in these
times.