Tinguian
One day a little boy named Elonen sat out in the yard making a bird snare, and as he worked, a little bird called to him: "Tik-tik-lo-den" (come and catch me).
"I am making a snare for you," said the boy; but the bird continued to call until the snare was finished.
Then Elonen ran and threw the snare over the bird and caught it, and he put it in a jar in his house while he went with the other boys to swim.
While he was away, his grandmother grew hungry, so she ate the bird, and when Elonen returned and found that his bird was gone, he was so sad that he wished he might go away and never come back. He went out into the forest and walked a long distance, until finally he came to a big stone and said: "Stone, open your mouth and eat me." And the stone opened its mouth and swallowed the boy.
When his grandmother missed the boy, she went out and looked everywhere, hoping to find him. Finally she passed near the stone and it cried out, "Here he is." Then the old woman tried to open the stone but she could not, so she called the horses to come and help her. They came and kicked it, but it would not break. Then she called the carabao and they hooked it, but they only broke their horns. She called the chickens, which pecked it, and the thunder, which shook it, but nothing could open it, and she had to go home without the boy.
A boy named "Elone" is like a warrior, a ninja, and even a assassin. When they failed to performed their duty or failed on their mission, their only chance and only hope to protect their honor and dignity for their master is to paid their failure from their own live.
ReplyDeleteI always heard it when my father try to reminisce about his childhood while with grandmother. Even that we are poor and hunger we done have to desire from the others will have.
ReplyDeletePhilosophical view that I am alway applied,
ReplyDeletewhenever you'd done a thing by a wrongful way or even the unexpected things happen, you must always face the consequence that you'd done.
Once a things had been broke, it will never been fix again.
We never known the truth, like what happen when here grandmother try to find his grandson.