Studying the Pre Colonial literature on the Philippines is important because it gives us insight to the bases of the literary prose displayed during the Spanish colonization. Due to advances in technology, we are able to extract myths, proverbs, riddles, an folk epics to almost 50,000 years before 1521, which is the year the Spanish started writing our history. It is surprising that even without formal training, or even proper materials to take down the literature they wrote, the Pre Colonial Filipino is able to produce rhythm and display an amount of grace in his writings. It is also amazing that they were able to preserve it just through oral tradition. This helps us see that we did not need the education nor the religion the Spaniards offered to us, as these forms of literature are also strongly connected with our original religion and custom rites. The variety and abundance of Philippine literature involved even before the colonial periods, to know what’s in the past, because it’s Filipinos history, it’s important to know what kind of literature they made during precolonial era. It helps us to know our history and where does our cool and childhood stories were made. Studying literature is fun because you can add some information in our own history. We need to study that, so that we can know the life before.
