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Palawan and the Afterlife |
| Section: LIFE / PATHWAYS |
| Author: Victor Paul Borg |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,936 Words, 17,502 Characters |
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The actor Matthew Mendoza is sipping San Miguel Light and musing about the days when he was at the peak of stardom before his self-imposed retreat. I draw the conversation back to Palawan -- Matthew’s hideout, and the geographical, ecological, and infrastructural edge of the Philippines. Matthew says: “When I was at university in Manila my colleagues used to ask me, ‘Do people have tails in Palawan?’” Never fully explored, shrouded in mystery, reputed for its ecological wilderness and otherworldliness, Palawan has long been considered the somewhere-beyond.
Matthew had grown up in Palawan and become famous in Manila as a young heart-throb character in Filipino films and TV dramas, and then he returned to Palawan for a professional sabbatical. “I am now too old to be a young character bu...
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...d is the fuzzy horizon. The valley lies behind us like a lost hidden world. This is where the Manunguul Jar was found. As I fix my stare on the blue hazy horizon, I think about the meaning of the exquisite carving on the jar's lid and begin to see what the Tabon People perceived: the world-beyond, or the afterlife, is a sea-bound journey towards the yonder world where the water meets the sky.
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