#Surigao

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The “Reuniting the Surigao Treasures” exhibit is the first time those treasures are all gathered together in one place in the Philippines. It is much larger than the joint exhibit in 2015 in New York City’s Asia Society Museum co-curated by Drs. Adriana Proser and Florina Capistrano-Baker. The latter is the curator for the Ayala Museum’s exhibit.

… The exhibit features a four-kilogram chain (Ayala Museum) reuniting with its pronged finial (BSP), woven waistbands with seven belts (BSP) meeting partial and complete sashes and buckles (Ayala Museum), and a balance scale (Ayala Museum) paired with a scale pan (BSP).

Other items the BSP is loaning to the museum include a 4.5-meter kamagi chain consisting of 12 connected necklaces, bangles with semi-precious stones, necklaces with suso beads, and more finials.

The exhibit, which will run until 2027, coincidentally begins with the 50th or golden anniversary of the Ayala Museum.

From left to right, top to bottom: (1) a 4-kilogram gold chain regalia; (2) a 91.5-cm long neck ornament weighing 812 grams; (3) a goblet weighing 41.9 grams with a height of 3.1 cm and a diameter of 7.8 cm. All MindaNews photo by Roel N. Catoto.

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"Third's time a charm"

“Third’s time a charm,” not that the previous two were completely failures or un-fun. Again, being in Siargao, this time, had many “first times”. That’s why I think this time is conspicuously engraved and elevated in my core memory. Our first stop was Naked Island. It is still bare and hot. If you want to get burned in the sun, this is the best place for you. The sand here is lightweight and so…

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Siargao Island, Philippines: Siargao is a tear-drop shaped island in the Philippine Sea situated 196 kilometers southeast of Tacloban. It has a land area of approximately 437 square kilometres. The east coast is relatively straight with one deep inlet, Port Pilar. Wikipedia

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Quakes Rattle Catanduanes and Surigao

Two quakes have been reported today by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). A magnitude 5.1 tremor struck off the coast of Surigao del Sur early this morning which the agency determined to be the aftershock of the Magnitude 7.4 earthquake last December. The quake which was tectonic in origin struck at 3:03 a.m. some 103 kilometers northeast of Hinatuan, Surigao del…

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Watch This Amazing Landing At Surigao Airport - Air Asia A320NEO

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Dapa, Surigao del Norte, Philippines

Taken by Yuriy Bogdanov

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At least 14 strong earthquakes, including a 6.8 magnitude quake, struck the province of Surigao del Sur from 10:35 p.m. on Sunday to 6:00 a.m. this Monday, according to Phivolcs.

Most of which were recorded as aftershocks of the 7.4 magnitude quake that rocked the province on Saturday, December 2.

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So something interesting happened when Episode 9 aired in Japan earlier

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Sun Life Foundation and WWF collaborate for sustainable Food Shed Farming

Sun Life Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sun Life Philippines, has partnered with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines to establish two Food Shed Farming Enterprise projects in the province of Surigao del Norte. The collaboration aims to provide a sustainable source of food and economic resilience for low-income urban communities through food security and sustainable…

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Chrystel Mae Correos biography: 13 things about Miss Earth Mindanao-Air 2022

Chrystel Mae Correos is a Filipino psychometrician, visual artist, model and beauty queen. She hails from Carrascal, Surigao del Sur, Philippines. Correos is 5’7″ tall. Here are 13 more things about her: In March 2013, she graduated from Carrascal National High School in Carrascal. In July 2017, she graduated cum laude from Mindanao State University -Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan…

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Потрясающий вайб острова Сиаргао (Siargao)

Северный Суригао, Филиппины

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Amazing vibe of Siargao Island

Northern Surigao, Philippines

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The Ikugan [Filipino mythology]!

On the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, there are tales of a mysterious group of humanoid creatures with long tails. They are called ‘Ikugan’, which roughly translates to ‘tailed men’ and they were notorious for their ferocity in battle. Their raids supposedly drove the people on Mindanao back from the Agusan valley to Surigao. After a series of vicious raids, the Ikugan creatures disappeared without a trace, satisfied with the destruction they had caused.

Ikugan have an ape-like appearance and are covered in fine, soft fur. They are also said to have disproportionally large hands and feet, perhaps to climb trees more easily. It is said that this species harbours a deep hatred towards humans.

Their characteristic tail is used to hang from trees. When a human victim passes underneath the waiting Ikugan, they drop down to attack.

In 1931, during the American occupation of the Philippines, some of these stories were recorded. It was theorized that the monstrous tailed invaders were actually the real-life Moro people, whose raids devastated the island in the 18th and 19th century. These warriors were known for their particularly long swords, which had the appearance of tails when sheathed. There is another theory that the stories actually originated from the late 12th century, when a group of pirates raided shore settlements. These raiders supposedly threw javelins which were attached to a rope, which may or may not be the origin of the story about humanoid creatures with long tails. This is unproven and remains a theory, however.

Sources: Cruz, F. A. and Adiong, N. M., 2020, International Studies in the Philippines: Mapping New Frontiers in Theory and Practice, Routledge, 282 pp., p. 27. Ramos, M. D., 1971, Creatures of Lower Philippine Mythology, Quezon, University of the Philippines Press. (image source: AnthonyKristan on Deviantart)

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So I'd like to talk a bit about the Filipino funeral gold scandal and how as someone writing an anti-colonial Filipino epic fantasy based heavily on early shaman lead rebellions against Spanish colonial rule I have some intense feelings about Filipino actress Beauty Gonzales flaunting wearing funerary death masks taken from a Large number of graves in surigao, butuan and mindinao and rather then treating them with appropriate respect or any kind of cultural ethics and instead turning them into fashion jewelry.

Aside from the damage to important archeological artifacts the utter disrespect shown to the dead who were interred in this way to ensure thier successful passage into the afterlife and to protect their bodies from the entry of evil spirits

For me it calls to mind when I was doing my primary sources research for Saints of Storm and Sorrow into the tree and boat burials of Luzon and reading the accounts of precolonial funerary practices by early Spanish friars and "naturalists" one of these documents was the memoir of Domingo Sanches who in a particularly horrifying account, noted how in the village he was staying in a young girl had died and he recorded how she was mourned and the great love and ceremony with which she was buried and how later that night he snuck back, dug up her grave and stole her body for research purposes. I remember he noted the great hostility of the natives when they discovered his theft and how he'd be unlikely able to return. I can't help being horrified at the thought of a Filipino actress adding to this horrible history of grave robbing and disrespecting the dead. To the colonialist mentality of taking spiritually important items and turning them into decorations. The level of disrespect is staggering. This is not the way to reconnect with our precolonial culture. I'm utterly horrified the more I look at this image and think about all the people who thought this was acceptable

For anyone interested in further reading

News articles citing art and museum critics disapproval

The screenshotted article with snippets from the Spanish naturalists memoir

History of funerary death masks and thier significance

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Magnitude 5.0 Quake Hits Surigao del Sur

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake just hit the province of Surigao del Sur today at 5:16 in the morning. Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) determined the quake to be tectonic in origin and hit some 31 kilometers northeast of Lingig with a depth of focus of 10 kilometers. The following intensities have been reported: Intensity V – Lingig, and Hinatuan, SURIGAO DEL…