Empress Of Drac, A Cebuana Blogger

Cebuanos are brave and intelligent people gifted with good looks and awesome COOLNESS!  These traits have been with us even before the Spanish era.  Before the Spaniards have shamelessly claimed our land, we already have our own culture, business, politics, and even unique and cool traditions.

Animism

The early Cebuanos are Animists (people who believe in Nature & Spirits) which I think is way cooler than the arrogant European explorers who forced their belief and traditions to us.  It’s very unfortunate that in our country’s history, our early Filipinos were labeled as idiots and ignoramus by disrespectful colonizers.  Even before the reign of the Spanish regime, we Cebuanos, are already traders, warriors, craftsmen, and politicians.

The Animist Cebuanos who pray to the spirits of the forest and the dead are not Pagans as what the colonizers forced everyone to believe.  Animism is not the same as Paganism.  Animists believe everything to be spiritual in nature while Pagans believe in the worship of many gods/goddesses.

The Tudruk and Sakra

Believe it or not, I am really amused with the Tudruk or Tugbuk (Penis Pin) and Sakra (Penis Ring)  used by the early Cebuanos to add spice and excitement to their sexual lifestyle.  Unfortunately, this practice of putting tudruk and sakra on male penises were prohibited when the Catholic Spanish missionaries came to the island.  One of the missionaries had even conducted a tedious individual penis inspection to get rid of these things that they called satanic and barbaric.  The European missionaries were dumbfounded when they found out that the natives were practicing such “malevolent deed”.

The picture above is the only image I found online that nearly resemble how a tudruk & a sakra looks like.  The penis pins used by the native Cebuanos are usually made of gold and are used as an anchor for the sakra (penis rings).  These rings were designed for a woman’s pleasure.  Of course, as I mentioned above, the European missionaries were scandalized and described the women natives as sex crazed and lack proper civilization.

Another thing that makes this tugruk and sakra thing more interesting is the tradition that requires a slave to deflower a virgin.  During that time, slaves are not allowed to wear tugruk and sakra, thus, it was very convenient for them to deflower virgins without hurting them after.  A virgin female before her marriage is required to be deflowered by a slave so that she won’t suffer severe pain when she and her husband will consummate their marriage. (Now, who don’t want to become slave? LOL!)

Photo Credit: SSPLPrints.com (Penis Pins)

Reference: Gabii sa Kabilin 2011 Quick Tour with Ka Bino Guerero

Happy New Year everyone!!!! It’s already past 16 minutes after 12:00am according to my CPU clock, but nonetheless it’s really, really great to meet the new year with a “new-year-post”. Ahehehehe! Anyways, have you ever wondered how and when and who had started this bloody celebration? If you have no idea then so do I. Ahehehe. Here’s a short history of New Year that I googled a while ago.

New Year harks back to the words of Alfred Tennyson:

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

A beginning is ushered with the dawn of an era when anticipation lurks in every nook and cranny. What we know as “New Year” today has evolved from practices of time immemorial. 123New Year offers information on New Year History. New Year is the most ancient of all the holidays. The day was first observed in Babylon in the 2nd millennia BC.

The Babylonian year began with the first sighting of the crescent moon - the new moon - following the vernal (spring) equinox. In ancient cultures, spring is the herald of new beginnings for it epitomizes the cycle of birth. Farmers sow the seeds, new crops are planted and flowers bloom. January 1, on the other hand, bears no such connotation.

Ever since the inception of the Christian era, the Romans continued to observe New Year in late March. However, subsequently the monarchy intervened in the making of the calendar, which was designed so as to synchronize with the sun. In 153 BC, the Roman Capitol declared the date as January 1. That year, in order to coordinate the almanac with the sun, Caesar had to allow the previous year to go on for 445 days.

So now WE know…ahehehe. Goodnight err good morning! I have to get some sleep since we’ll watch Desperadas tomorrow. Ahehehe…Happy New Year!!!!!! Muwaaaaah!!!

EOD