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Semana Santa 07: Senakulo Kristo

I’ve just uploaded my Soundslide (demo use, yes, just registered it) Senakulo slideshow comprising 20 photos from a series of night shoot of a passion play in Evangelista St., Makati. Please click on the image to go to the webpage and click the PLAY button located at the bottom left corner. The slideshow is four minutes long with background senakulo sound recorded on the last day, 7 April with the typical tagulaylay rythm.

My Semana Santa posts will be started next week.

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Semana Santa 07: Three Images

The spectacle that is Cutud

Originally uploaded by *bahag-king.

Mention Cutud and I just shake my head in disappointment. San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga has become a circus, a tourist trap that is becoming a yearly spectacle for those who want blood, gore and pretense rolled into one. Personally, I haven’t been to that place and I don’t think that I will ever go there to document the Lenten rituals. It has become commercialized, overly exposed offering cheap thrills for foreigners and gawkers alike.

Wet Lent, in Infanta, Quezon

It’s rather unusual that this year’s Semana Santa is rather wet. Weather forecasters say that its because of the ITCZ or intertropical convergent zone currently affecting the country that’s bringing showers. Especially that I’m now in Infanta, Quezon and the weather seems gloomy.

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In Paete

The pagsusuob of the image of the Santo Intierro here in Paete was just held earlier this morning and really, it was something that you cannot just forget. The pagsusuob is a ritual that is one of a kind probably in the Philippines (and possibly the world?) wherein the iconic image of the dead Christ is ritually bathed (more like daubed with cotton) in a mixture of lambanog (a local spirit that has high alcohol content akin to vodka) and agua de cologna (an aromatic or perfumed liquid). Then a makeshift tent is placed over it comprised of wooden frames and blankets. The image is then smoked for almost 5 hours.

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Out for the Holy Week

I’ll be out of circulation for the week as I’ll be doing my Lenten documentation in Paete and surrounding municipalities…