Anthropology 101: Cultural Connections of the Hole Legends Theories

My Pala'wan guide Gara told me about a legend of the a very deep hole in the ground called the "Haws". It's dept is unbearable that no light can get through it's lowest point. They say that its inhabitants were small men a size of a stick of match.

The story begins with a Pala'wan boar hunter who unsuspectingly fell into this hole. He landed safely into bushes but scratched. The small men saw him but they never do anything to him. He stayed there for years. While sleeping, a divine voice told him to get out of the hole by making hundreds of darts and use it with his blowgun to shoot it on one another on a star above the sky. If he fail to do this so, he will be eaten alive. After he wake up, he did this immediately as he was told and then got out of the hole with his whole body alive.

Pala'wan animistic religion and mythology were influenced by Hinduism. In this case, I found a Hindu Legend of the Lonar Crater Lake in Maharashtra, India.

According to the Skanda Purana scriptures, the demon Lonasur devastated the surrounding areas and even challenged the Gods. The people prayed and they appealed to the Lord Vishnu. He transformed into a handsome youth named "Daitya-Sudan". He charmed the giant's sisters and discovered his den. He removed the lid of the den and then destroyed the giant. The water believed to be the blood and the salts were the decomposed flesh.

This maybe an isolated incident like the pyramids of the Mayans and Egyptians but the "evil beings in a legendary hole" are exceptional because of the proximity of Palawan in the territory of Buddhist and Hindu empires of Sri Vijaya and Majapahit respectively.

This theory serves as an evidence of an another theory which is the influence through trade by the ancient and Pre-Hispanic Filipinos with the other cultures in Southeast Asia which begun by the anthropologists who have been studying our history and cultures and the crew of the "Voyage of the Balangays" who led the journey of the balangay replicas through Southeast Asia.

Reference:

Gara Saran of Sitio Bohoy, Brgy Ocayan, Bataraza, Palawan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonar_crater

Lonar Crate in Maharashtra, India

ALOO!!!

i'm back again after more than half a year of depression and soul searching (LOL). i am now currently residing here in a far-flung place of southern Palawan and working as a research assistant on wildlife and meteorology for the mine rehabilitation unit under the supervision of a prestigious and responsible nickel mining company.

i've been measuring those rainfalls and peeking on those wild birds using my binocular and camera since December 2010 and yeah i'm having fun with my new work. of course, i am having a hard time staying here because this place is a small village and Kudat, Malaysia is nearer than Manila or Puerto Prinsesa. hahaha

i will be posting my own thoughts and share anything especially on those Anthropological and anything from the Hardcore, Punk and Metal scene out there.

and yeah even though i'm fuckin' hundreds of miles away from civilization my dedication to the d.i.y. scene is still in my heart...

Price Tags and Protest Against Monopoly

We all hear about those sayings "BUY ORIGINAL CDs!". If we patronize these pirated stuffs then we are making these hard-working artists on the verge of bunkraptcy. Well, this is true obviously. When we buy pirated CDs the income produced from these stuffs are not going directly to the artist and the recording companies but to the bastards who ripped off their stuffs and sold them for their own good. It estimates millions of pesos had been lost because of these viruses.

I realized how hard is it to produce stuffs when i started Dilapidated Buko Pie and i never knew that it really was painstaking! It really needs large sums of money to buy materials for the demos. I regret that i bought these pirated CDs. Sometimes I feel so ashamed when i saw these artists playing live because i bought stuffs that had been stolen from them. but hey, i'm just a kid from those times and i want those songs from my favorite artists.

If there's one thing i hate about this is the monopoly. big recording companies do have strict contracts to monopolize the artists stuffs. there is no consideration of reduplicating unless you were grant permission to do so and sometimes you need to pay a certain price to do so. they sometimes say they care for music but actually they care about MONEY. this is why they hate pirate bastards because the money will go directly to rippers instead of going directly to them.

This is the reason why Dilapidated Buko Pie's first release is always FREE. It is my protest against the severe monopoly on music. I don't care about benefiting from selling my stuffs... i just want to spread my music and my message to everyone.

And of course where on earth do you get your money to continue producing your stuffs? from your mother? LOL that's why i put a P25 price tags on the remaining releases. (as an indie artist, me and my bandmates do the job of producing our own stuffs by recording it with our own pc and buy blank CDs and print layouts for producing demos)

Music is free for me. (i even don't care if people would rip it off and disperse it anywhere as long as they care for spreading my music and for my message) you can download it ANYTIME you want (there are links on our myspace and soundclick accounts). But the most precious thing we artist had are the CDs, Casette tapes, EPs, LPs, Vinyls etc etc we are producing. So if you wanna SUPPORT us, guys, and also other artists, i beg you to pay with MONEY. Not cellphone load, food or anything that is not money because these stuffs are affordable (with our own baon! lolz) and can't be used to buy blank CDs (or to pay the recording company to produce), papers, new equipments and instruments for making better music with more quality... DUH!!!

Pilipinas Fast Fest 2010 @Ten02 Bar 6.26.10

PILIPINAS FAST FEST 2010

with

FEUD (Special Reunion Show)

ARAHxKIRI (Malaysia)

ISTUKAS OVER DISNEYLAND

PLAY

RUSH IxDx

AGGRESSIVE DOG ATTACK

CENSORSHIT

SISTER BASTARD

REPUGNANT
YOUTH FOR CRUST

KAKTUS KARUKA

FLASH ELORDE

DISBAND

N.C.P.

4pm @Ten02 bar, Timog ave. cor. Scout Ybardaloza, QC only P120

also...

this limited compilation shit is also available... so RESERVE NOW!!!

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Dilapidated Buko Pie is fucked up =)))))))))))))))

after my supposed to be date didn't came and almost puked out all of my breakfast during a bus ride to home, my computer starts to bug itself down. Now, i am using it in safe mode! @_@

no sounds, no videos, with limited features... when i say my pc is down... dxbxp is FUCKED UP! XD

all of my compositions are made using guitar pro, fruity loops, and many many moar softwares for music making. how can i listen to my music with the sound card disabled in this safe mode? lolz

i got my daring decision to call off all my side projects and finalize what is left behind. that is all of my files will be transfer to josh pc and he will do the job =))))))

it's all fucked up... Cancer II is not finish yet. it is supposed to be an album but we will make it into an EP with only 6 songs in a folder lolz

BUUUUUUT... i stay positive in spite of all these shits happening to us. i will use josh' mac laptop to compose songs hehehe

DBP's Cancer II will be out anytime on the second half of 2010 :D or 2011 lolz

Vintage Drum Machine Samples (torrent)

for those who are using FL Studio here's a bunch of drum samples that can be useful for making those drum beats earth shaking or grooovyyyyyyyy.... hahaha

this is a torrent so you after you download it, you use any torrent downloaders (utorrent or bittorrent) to download the files *redundant hahaha*

FINDOT HERE

enjoy!!!

Hooray!!! DxBxP and Tambora Noisexcore Project was on Jep's Konspira Zine!

Dilapidated Buko Pie and Tambora Noisexcore project was featured on Jep's Konspira Zine. along with Josh Sunny Day Happy Tunes in its Scene Report section. I was laughing and giggling while reading those articles hahaha

as to answer to Jep's hope to see TxNxCxP play live sorry i can't play it live. I can't remember na how i did those tracks with FL Studio XD but anyway i can make more songs which i can play live :D

you can get a copy from Jep (http://www.facebook.com/konspirazine1997) maybe on gigs where he is present for only P40 :D :D :D