Dr.
Pedro “Jun” Cruz Reyes visited the province for the 2nd time around.
He was invited then by a former student to inspire young writers and artists to
devote their talents to Marinduque cultural studies. JCR was again invited to
collaborate with his student in a cultural mapping project. Jun Cruz is an
accomplished writer and artist himself: the author of the short story Utos ng
Hari, book of poetry Syeyring and the centennial prize for novel, Etsa Pwera.
He could not help but be excited with possible clues for the inarticulate epic
of the Tagalog region.
First, JCR offers an alternative reading of the
traditional putong, he argues that it dates back to the 12th
century, possibly brought by traders from India to the islands. Next, Jun Cruz
also deconstructed the creation myth of Marinduque and Duque to be rather
recent and therefore offers only little insight to the origins of the
pre-colonial culture of the ancestors finally, the undated remains in the islets
of Tres reyes supplemented with the peopling story of Gasan(g) and Buenavista
(Sabang). Much scholarship is badly needed, a bit of area studies and archeology
along with other social sciences could support the alternative genesis of
Marinduque. That of what is mentioned in old history records collated long
before Blair and Robertson. The place known simply by Malinduk, the old name of
the place where the Mt. Malinidg is found.
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