The ancient home of the datus
Sunday, February 19, 2012
MY IDEA that the hill on which foot I was born as being the lost settlement of ancient Kagay-an stemmed from an “oral tradition” that my grandfather passed on to me. The Molugan hill, according to him, was the “himoan ug tulugan” (where sleeping quarters were made or resting place) of the datus and his people in the ancient time. It was then mentioned in history as the Himolugan settlement.
This “oral tradition” is the rock of stability to my contention of the historical value of this hill.
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To further support my position, I would like to share the personality profile of the bearer of the “oral tradition.”
Moises Ebajay, the father of my mother Leonora, was a no-nonsense person. It was said that he grew up as a ward of a priest because he was orphaned early. But it made me wondered why he was an illiterate and a wholehearted animist-polytheist. When asked about his birthday, he reckoned it this way, “Napulo na ko katuig sa dihang gipatay si Rizal (I was ten years old when Rizal was executed).”
