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Siquijor
Summary
Siquijor (ˌsɪkiˈhɔr , sɪkɪˈhɔɾ), officially the Province of Siquijor (Lalawigan sa Siquijor; Lalawigan ng Siquijor), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. Its capital is the municipality also named Siquijor. To the north of Siquijor is Cebu, to the west is Negros, northeast is Bohol, and to the south, across the Bohol Sea, is Mindanao.
During the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, the Spaniards called the island Isla del Fuego (Island of Fire). Siquijor is commonly associated with mystic traditions that the island's growing tourism industry capitalizes on.
According to folk legend, many years ago, when the magical island of Siquijor was still nowhere on the face of the earth, a great storm engulfed the Visayan region, and a strong earthquake shook the earth and sea. Amidst the lightning and thunder arose an island from the depths of the ocean's womb which came to be known as the island of Siquijor, hence the name Isla del Fuego, or "Island of Fire." Oddly enough, in modern times, highland farmers have found giant shells underneath their farm plots, supporting the theory that Siquijor rose from the sea.
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Prior to colonization, the island polity was home to the Kingdom (Kedatuan) of Katugasan, named after the tugas, the molave trees which abounded the island along with fireflies.
The tugas or molave trees were used by the ancient dwellers of the island in making posts (haligi) for their houses because of their strength and durability that could withstand strong typhoons and monsoons and was proven by the house of Totang built near the artesian well of Cang-igdot. Most of the patriarchs of the island used the tugas trees to make a wooden plow (tukod) to cultivate the rocky soil for farming using mainly male cattle (toro) to pull it through the sticky and hard rocky soil. However, before the discovery of making tugas as the foundations of their houses, the primitive Siquijodnons dwelt in caves as shown by the pottery and old tools like stone grinder (liligsan) excavated by Mitring from the three caves of Sam-ang.
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