Ines Kannoyan
Ilocano · mortal · Ilocano traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Ines Kannoyan is the beautiful maiden of Kalanutian, the beloved of the hero in Biag ni Lam-ang. Her fame draws suitors from every quarter, and their courtship gifts crowd her house; Lam-ang wins her by display of wealth and by the marvels of his charmed animals, whose feats overawe her family. Her marriage to Lam-ang is the goal of the epic's second movement, and it is the marriage rite of diving for shellfish that leads to the hero's death and eventual resurrection. She stands as the ideal of Ilocano feminine beauty in the tradition's literature.
Domains
- beauty
Powers
- draws suitors from every town by her beauty
Epithets
- ti napintas a balasang ti Kalanutian — the beautiful maiden of KalanutianLeopoldo Y. Yabes, The Ilocano Epic (Manila, 1935) (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: Lam-angMarries the hero Lam-ang.Leopoldo Y. Yabes, The Ilocano Epic (Manila, 1935) (secondary)
Sources
- Ines Kannoyan is the celebrated maiden of Kalanutian courted and married by Lam-ang in the epic.: Gerardo Blanco & Isabelo de los Reyes, 'Vida de Lam-ang,' in El Folk-Lore Filipino (Manila, 1889) (primary); Leopoldo Y. Yabes, The Ilocano Epic (Manila, 1935) (secondary)