Motuo Ka ug Serena?
when i went to loon, bohol, i was given a tour by a town official. they took me to an old pool in loon in close proximity to a fish farm. one thing that i noticed about the pool was that it was quite dark in color (blueish green); the local official told me that the pool is deep , probably close to 50 feet deep and that the temperature in there was quite cold. he then told me that the old folklore in loon is that there are 'people' living in the pool.
absurd bitaw. i told him that the reasons why the pool is cold is that the stream that empties to the pool comes from the bukid, and the reasons why there is dark plants coming out of the pool is because of the eutrophication around the water-bed. considering the large nitrogen, and phosphorus run-offs from the farms, and human housings around the water-bed.
as for the folklore of 'mga enkanta' that live in the water, i merely smiled at his comment. di ko mo tuo ana. that in itself is a remnant of pagan worship prior to the christianization of the philippines; and some of that belief is still quite high in loon, bohol---per se the beliefs in diwatas and enkantas. why there are even some people in valencia that believe that there are enkantas in the panangatan river and in badjang springs.
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