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70 MARINDUQUE Kalutang playing Kalesayahan Tuba festival Gasang Gasang Festival A yearly colorful Easter Sunday festival held in the town of Gasan. It is a celebration of the origin of the name “Gasan” which came from the term “Gasang- Gasang” a type of coral that used to be seen around the town’s shoreline. Accompanied by live marching bands, contingents of colorful costumes and indigenous materials. Dancing in Jubilation the contingents from surrounding Barangays are in full spirit to the beat of the drums as the parade dances its way along the major streets of Gasan shouting “Viva El Kristo”. Tuba Festival “Tuba” is the native drink obtained from the coconut tree by the “mangangant” or “tuba” gatherers. A festival in honour of the “mangangant and “tuba” drinking, a pastime, that has been developed in the town of Torrijos, and coincides with the town fiesta. Street dancing, utilizing props of bamboo and coconut materials are accompanied by drum and lyre bands. Kalesayahan Festival Kalesayahan is a contraction of two tagalog words “Kalesa” a local horse-drawn vehicle and The storyline of the Moriones Festival centers on Longino, a Roman Centurion, blind in one eye. “kasayahan” A festival celebrating kalesas in Gasan town during the past decade to generate interest in this form of local transportation and to preserve the few existing ones, has been successfully undertaken in the Month of August of every year. This is timed with the town’s celebration of its founding anniversary. Kalesas and horses are gaily decorated with indigenous materials, carrying a young couple dressed in “Filipiniana attire that shows e creativity in various expressions and decorating. A community project involving men women and children with winners often receiving cash prizes. The Moriones Would have to be the biggest festival in Marinduque and is held on Holy Week each year. Throughout the Philippines, Holy Week is celebrated with fervor and reverence which follow age-old Catholic customs plus a few ancient practices that border on the mystical. And Marinduque is no exception as it is time for the Moriones Festival, a folk-religious tradition dating back to the 1870s, that runs from Holy Monday to Easter Sunday. Men and women from the island’s six towns dress up as colorful characters that parody the clothing and behavior of Roman soldiers during the time of Christ. The
hand-made costumes are fashioned from cloth, shells, woven into vines plus almost anything useful that’s lying around – the only limit seems to be the designer’s creativity and imagination. The mask, or morion, is usually made of hand carved wood or Paper Mache’. A helmet adorned with multi-hued paper flowers completes this distinctive garb. The swords, shields and spears are of painted wood and with the mask, costume and helmet comprise the basic Roman tunic. The mask and costume are prepared painstakingly and discreetly months, even years, before they’re worn. For the whole week these pesky Moriones figures populate the town’s streets, engaging in mock sword fights, marching, dancing, playing pranks on the masses of excited children, performing antics or springing a surprise on an unsuspecting victim, while staying safely hidden behind their mask. Amidst all this gaiety and frivolity the man behind the seemingly vexing morion is actually fulfilling a vow of penance, thanksgiving or performing an act of self-cleansing. Traditionally the Moriones’ identity is kept secret, even from his immediate family. The spiritual sacrifice of these men and women is a heavy burden they happily and enthusiastically carry out. Enduring the weighty helmet, with vision limited by the mask, and sweltering inside their costume during the hot humid days, the penitents then participate in the Map of Marinduque evening’s religious processions and do so with a sense of pride and achievement. The storyline of the Moriones Festival centers on Longino, a Roman Centurion, blind in one eye, who was ordered by the Roman High Council to command the soldiers at the crucifixion. He speared the side of the crucified Christ, and a few drops of the blood that gushed from the wound splashed into his blind eye, miraculously restoring his sight. He converted to Christianity after the miracle, which earned him the wrath of the other centurions. Longino then set out to tell as many people as possible of the miracle and proclaiming Christ as the Son of God. This is where the fun starts, perfectly timed in Marinduque for its brand of Easter Sunday celebrations. Pontius Pilate orders the Moriones to look for Longino, capture and behead him to prevent his spreading the news. Learning of the plot he eludes his fellow Moriones playing captors, not to escape but to gain more time in spreading the truth of his newly found faith. The habulan, or mad chase, for Longino begins and so does the fun. Running in chaotic circles around the town, in the market place, hiding in houses and even using the audience as a shield to avoid his perplexed Moriones pursuers, this spectacle delights the onlookers no end. Oftentimes a spectator becomes an unwitting participant of this tragi-comedy as he tries to hide LUZON MARINDUQUE 71
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