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Eskaya people have a large corpus of traditional literature, handwritten in both Eskayan and Visayan. The Eskaya also have traditions of oral historiography and prophecy. In these oral and written texts Eskaya people maintain that their ancestors arrived from Sumatra to colonize Bohol. Bohol’s first pope, Pinay, was instructed by the Holy Child to create the Eskayan language and script and base it on the human body. The Spanish came and burned the native records, which is how Cebuano-Visayan came to dominate the island. When Mariano Datahan discovered surviving Eskaya texts in the early twentieth century, the language was revived. Among Eskayan texts are stories that reference traditional Visayan folklore, and derivations from popular Visayan novels; however, most tropes cannot be traced to existing works. Processes of substitution and elaboration, seen in the Eskayan language, are also repeated in Eskaya literature where colonial categories are replicated and reimagined as indigenous. |
