Naga Heritage Watch

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Inside the Universidad de Santa Isabel

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Naga Parochial School


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Entrance from the Metropolitan Cathedral side

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House built in 1927 in Tigaon


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old house by Virtual Aly
Abandoned house in Naga


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Art Deco Building in Libmanan


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Old Camarines Sur Provincial Jail in Naga

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Nacianceno Residence photo by Manny Pons


Old house in Libod by Manny Pons


Imperio residence by Manny Pons

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Palitan nyo nlng po sana ito ng Bicol Heritage Watch..iisa lng nmn probinsya natin, dito na lahat.
Bicol History sana may makapag post nito..
http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=...ention&f=false
also they are telling we came from taiwan..lol, why am i Kayumanggi? also aloy ng may aeta dyan sa cam sur.

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Pasensya na tabi, warang sorsogon watch, pagsararoon ta na lng, instead of making multiple threads. bako man grabe ang post sayang lng ang thread.

The True Site of the First Mass in Luzon

While Miguel Lopez de Legaspi was still in Cebu, he wrote King Philip II in 1567 requesting for religious to be sent to the Philippines. In reply to such letter, the King ordered the Provincial of the Order of St. Augustine in New Spain (Mexico) to dispatch religious of his Order to the Philippines to help propagate and spread the Christian faith.



As a consequence, while in Mexico Fray Alonso Jimenez, O.S.A. “voluntarily offered himself to such an apostolic enterprise” to the Philippines with Fray Juan de Alva, O.S.A. From Mexico, they boarded the ship “San Juan” under the command of Captain Juan Lopez de Aguirre, a Viscayan noble and soldier with great reputation and arrived in Cebu in 1569.



At that time, the religious in Cebu were over-joyed when they “received the first great consolation and happiness, since the ship carried two of the most radiant lights ever to shine on the hemisphere of this province in the person of two of our religious, new soldiers in spiritual militia”.



A native of the City of Malaga in Southern Spain, Fray Alonso Jimenez was ordained priest in Mexico City on August 21, 1558. When he reached Cebu, he entered his vows in the First Provincial Chapter and he was nominated and selected to be the missionary in that memorable assembly of the whole Southern Luzon.



Coming from Cebu, Fray Jimenez together with Fray Juan de Alva went to Oton, Panay to meet Legaspi who was there at that time. Then Fray Alonso Jimenez and Spanish Captain Luiz Enriquez de Guzman were sent to explore, pacify and evangelize Southern Luzon.



Sailing northeasterly coming from Oton, Panay with brief stopovers to evangelize Leyte, Samar, Masbate and Burias Island, and across Ticao Pass to Sorsogon Province, the missionary group of Fray Alonso Jimenez reached Ginangra (a barangay of the present-day town of Magallanes) and landed finally at the ancient fishing village of “Hibal-ong” which was later called Ibalon (Gibalon).



It is worthy to mention in this connection that for every sea expedition or voyage, there must be a landfall.



In this case, where was the landfall (“surgidero”) of the Guzman-Jimenez expedition? What is the name of the place at present? The answer to these questions are very crucial and of vital or decisive importance in determining the true site of the first mass in Luzon. (In Magallanes-Bicol dialect, the question is “Saeng lugar sinda nagdoong o nagsalta?” Translated to English is “Where did they land?”).



The landfall of the De-Guzman-Jimenez expedition was on the shore of Ibalon (“Hibal-ong”) now known as sitio San Isidro (in Barangay Salvacion), which is situated at the mouth of a big river, located at the western coast of Sorsogon Province in what is now the Ginangra River. Near the mouth of the said river, they must have cast anchor not too far from the seashore and went ashore to Ibalon.



On the shore of Ibalon, the present-day sitio of San Isidro at the mouth (“bocana”) of said Ginangra River, Captain de Guzman and Fray Alonso Jimenez built a small chapel made of bamboo and nipa. There, Fray Jimenez held the first mass in Luzon in 1569. The natives were baptized, thus making Ibalon (now sitio San Isidro) as the first Christian settlement in Luzon.



The holding of the first mass in Ibalon (Gibalon) in Luzon in 1569 is evidenced by the records of the San Agustin Museum in Cebu and Manila which stated that he (Fray Jimenez) went to Ibalon in the province of Camarines (the name of the Bicol Region at that time) where he resided for sometime, baptized a lot of indios and principales and built a small chapel. The said records were written in Spanish, a portion of which reads as follows: “xxx aqui paso a Ibalon, de la provincia de Camarines, donde residio algun tiempo, bautizo a muchos indios y principales, levanto una pequeña iglesias xxx”.



Based on the foregoing assertions, there are no reportorial accounts or records so far concerning the holding of the First Mass in 1569 by Fray Alonso Jimenez in any other place in Luzon except in Ibalon as manifested by the records of the Order of St. Augustine to which Fray Alonso Jimenez belonged. The Augustinians friars were the first missionaries who explored, landed and evangelized Luzon particularly the western coast of the present-day Sorsogon province.



The early maps of the Philippines and the Bicol Region as well as that of Sorsogon province show that Gibalon (Ibalon) is situated at the mouth of the Gibalon River, which is located on the western coast of the present-day Municipality of Magallanes in the Province of Sorsogon. The Gibalon River derived its name from the place called Gibalon. At present, the Gibalon River is known as the Ginangra River where the present-day Barangay Ginangra is located.



Being a fishing town/village the shore of Ibalon (Gibalon) was the more appropriate and logical site to hold the Holy Mass at that point in time in July 1569, similarly what have been done at Limasawa and Cebu when Magellan first landed on the shores of places in 1521. Surely, the shore was not a forested area and at that time it was the place where many people lived and converged for barter trading and fishing as their means of livelihood.



Before the arrival of the De Guzman-Jimenez Expedition in 1569 in the ancient village of “Hibal-ong” (Gibalon/Ibalon), it was already a thickly populated area because Fray Alonso Jimenez baptized a lot of indios and principales (“bautizo a muchos indios y principales”).
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Originally Posted by dc88

Palitan nyo nlng po sana ito ng Bicol Heritage Watch..iisa lng nmn probinsya natin, dito na lahat.

Feel free to post bicol heritage-related matters here

Bicol History sana may makapag post nito..
http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=...ention&f=false
also they are telling we came from taiwan..lol, why am i Kayumanggi? also aloy ng may aeta dyan sa cam sur.

There are two theories explaining where our ancestors came from. One is the Taiwan theory which you mentioned and the other is the Sundaland theory. The first occupants of Taiwan were actually the sea-faring austronesians. Most Filipinos, malaysians, indonesians, oceanians and even the people of madagascar are of austronesian origin. Like what happened to our fellow aetas, they retreated also to the uplands when the foreigners came (in their case, the foreigners were the chinese). Today, there are indigenous groups still thriving in Taiwan and the Hainan province of China.

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Tribal Welcome Ceremony by Enoch Yong, on Flickr
Indigenous group in Taiwan

For now, i'd say the Taiwan theory is more reliable than the sundaland due to the recent archeological findings in Cagayan valley. But who knows, we might have a number of undiscovered archeological sites in mindanao to discredit the out of taiwan theory.


AETAS IN CAMARINES

also aloy ng may aeta dyan sa cam sur.

Its true that aetas have long inhabited the cam sur area even before the austronesians (malay/indones) came. In fact, the word "harong" (bahay) might have been borrowed from the aetas as it is very different from the equivalent Filipino/austronesian words which are "balai/bahay."
The aeta groups in zambales call their temporary lean-to houses "hawong" I just dont know if it's the same with the aetas in camarines.

LEAN-TO STRUCTURE

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Hawong. Temorary lean-to structures of the aetas.

Contrary to what I've mentioned, Harong on the other hand may instead be related to Borneo's "larong". Larong is a ceremonial boat house which is believed by the austronesians to possess a soul that accompanies the dead to the second life. Austronesians are so attached to boating that even their houses are patterned from boats. We see this on our traditional houses even in the mountains.

BOAT AND TRADITIONAL HOUSES
These are samples of traditional houses in the Philippines, notice the very imposing roofs. The houses on our neighboring country such as indonesia, have more obvious boat-shaped roofs than us.
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BOAT AND THE DEAD

Here in the Philippines, we only see the connection of the death ceremony through the shell spoons and burial artifacts such as this one found in Palawan (manunggul jar). In some parts of malaysia/indonesia however, the ceremony of boat houses for the dead have written records.

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Puente de Claveria. The bridge that spanned through the Naga river linking the pueblo de Tabuco to the spanish settlment.

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Penafrancia Shrine from the 1904 book La Virgen Maria Venerada en Sus Imagenes Filipinas.

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Ticao Stone Conference

In April of 2011, Dr. Francisco Datar of the University of the Philippines rushed to Monreal, in Ticao islands, after being informed that there were two slabs of stones with inscriptions that looked like they meant something and resembled what people know as "baybayin", the pre-Spanish syllabary. Soon, the TV networks were reporting the "discovery" or, rather, the re-discovery: the slabs of stone were there for some ten years, the bigger and flatter one used by students as a doormat... By the first week of August, a team from the National Museum and the University of the Philippines, with Dr. Datar at the helm, visited Monreal and held the First Ticao Stone Conference... At present, the stone tablets are now in the custody of the National Museum. The artifacts had undergone more examination. There are initial findings."
We could be looking at a national treasure but at the moment there no clear answer yet.

Please join us with other academics, school officials, and students in this conference. What is exciting about the conference is that it has stirred exciting academic interest in pre-Hispanic history of our nation.

There will be a registration fee of P500 to cover the lunch and the kits to be distributed. The kits include the papers of those who all looked into artifacts.

The Second Batong Ticao/Ticao Stone Conference will be held at the Arrupe Convention Hall on Feb. 10, 2012, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, under the auspices of the Institute of Bikol History & Culture, with support from the University Research Council and the Office of the University President. An anthropologist, archaeologist, linguist, physicist, a National Museum representative, and two cultural workers/leaders from Ticao Island, in Masbate, will read papers and present their analysis.




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The Monreal stones of Ticao Island was featured in one of GMA's documentaries

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Originally Posted by Fredobsurt

AETAS IN CAMARINES


Its true that aetas have long inhabited the cam sur area even before the austronesians (malay/indones) came. In fact, the word "harong" (bahay) might have been borrowed from the aetas as it is very different from the equivalent Filipino/austronesian words which are "balai/bahay."
The aeta groups in zambales call their temporary lean-to houses "hawong" I just dont know if it's the same with the aetas in camarines.

I just found out from these pictures I took from the Museo Arqueologico in the Minor Seminary that camarines aetas / agtas call their lean-tos, "butukan," far from the Zambales aetas' "Hawong".

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Artifacts excavated from various parts of bikol suggesting contacts with foreign traders


Ming Dynasty


Ching Dynasty


Annam (Vietnam), Siam (Thailand)

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well-preserved gabaldon buildings of Camarines Sur National High School, Naga.

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Churches of Caceres circa 1966


Baao


Milaor


Minalabac


Nabua


Pili


Bato


Bombon


Buhi


Bula


Magarao


Lagonoy


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Calabanga



Goa

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University of Nueva Caceres in Naga

the university has a museum which houses pre-colonial and colonial bikoliana artifacts.

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Padre Burgos St. circa 1940
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Ancient burial urn retells Bicol epic

Dr. Zeus Salazar believes that the urn?s cover design also reflects the period when the inhabitants of the archipelago were starting to relate with their Indo-Malaysian neighbors.

A summa cum laude graduate of history from the University of the Philippines with a doctorate in ethnology from the University of Paris, Salazar interpreted the design figures to be characters and creatures of the Ibalon epic.

His study was published as a book titled ?Liktao at Epiko, Ang Takip ng Tapayang Libingan ng Libmanan, Camarines Sur.?

The urn cover, with a 32-centimeter circumference, details enigmatic forms and figures around a pyramid-like center that convey lines from the ancient epic.

KING

According to curator Fabie Arejola, some historical buffs have speculated that the burial urn, unearthed in 1982 in Bigaho, Libmanan, might have contained the remains of Handiong himself.

Handiong and his warriors came to Ibalon (Spanish colonizers once called Bicol the Tierra de Ybalon) to ?clear? the place and start planting, but the king was challenged by a serpent called Uryol or Oriol who later became a close ally in building the region?s civilization.

Arejola said the urn had yet to be carbon-dated to determine its age, but she said several experts had already examined and concluded its authenticity and prehistory, while others were skeptical.

Salazar traced the publisher of the ?fragmented? five-part Ibalon epic to Spanish friar Jose Castaño in the 1800s.

He ascertained that another friar, Bernardino Melendreras, wrote it in Spanish, using a European literary form in one part. But he finds the remaining parts ?more authentic.?

The anthropologist compared and correlated the designs and contents of the burial urn with those of similar artifacts found elsewhere in the Philippines to arrive at the period of 5000 BC to 10 AD when the burial urn cover was crafted.

Salazar traced its source from the villages of Poro or Bigaho in Libmanan, which the driver of artifact collector Dr. Ermelo Almeda said they frequented to buy artifacts in the 1980s. Almeda died in 1998 and left no catalogue of his large collection, ranging from fossilized dinosaur eggs and Stone Age instruments to Chinese porcelain wares.

Poro and Bigaho were mentioned by German-Russian ethnologist Fedor Jagor in 1851 archeological finds, such as human remains, deer horns, plates and pots, during a road construction, Salazar said.

DOUBTS

National Museum officials consulted on the burial urn cover, however, doubted the authenticity of the piece. It was bought from an artifacts digger and not discovered through scientific methods of archeology, they said.

Dr. Jesus J. Peralta, a retired anthropologist and archeologist of the National Museum, wrote that ?the burial urn with minaret-like cover with incised designs was bought from a vendor, so that it cannot be ascertained where it came from, which was more likely from Mindanao.?

But Salazar said the absence of a scientific archeological process could be satisfied with ?topologically comparing and correlating a piece with pieces discovered in situ.? He cited the museum?s burial urn with a conical cover which was excavated in Calatagan, Batangas, as one example of one authentic piece not obtained in situ.

The National Museum even declared the Calatagan urn a national treasure and the ?first artifact ? to contain evidence of ancient Philippine writing,? he said.

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Old Gabaldon building in Nabua which got demolished for a mall projerct

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Towns of Canaman and Camaligan. Both were former vistas of Nueva Caceres (Naga). They were annexed to Naga in the early 1900's but were then separated later on.

Camaligan Church


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Canaman Church

In 1900, after militant Canamanons heard that the Americans are closing in, burned to the ground their own “beautiful and richly decorated church, in an act of self-immolation and in effort to save the town’s most concrete embodiment of its Catholic faith from desecration at the hands of the new imperialists. The burning was a deliberate and intentional act: the heavy-hearted arsonists even gathered and piled on top of the church’s expensive organ dry grass and big tree branches to which they touched the match, to make certain that the fire consumed all combustible parts of the 231-year-old building and its interiors.

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Burial jars at the Concillar de Museo de Seminario