Harold, his father, brother, and how much they cared for Teatro Balangaw

Cover of 'Community Theater: Global Perspectives' by Eugene van Erven

 Harold Glenn Miciano has joined his father, Melo, in heaven. 

Yes, I do remember how proud his father was of his Harold, especially, and his brother Hajun, particularly of his sons’ artistic contribution to our humble Teatro Balangaw in the late 90’s.

After all, Mara Unduk, that dance-drama where the brothers were lead players had performances then in several Marinduque towns and some barangays in Boac. Not to mention the group’s performances at the Rajah Sulaiman Theater then at Fort Bonifacio, Nayong Pilipino and at Museong Pambata in Roxas Boulevard.

The brothers also took part in a Teatro Balangaw-PETA play way back in 1997, "Putik sa Karamihan, Ginto sa Iilan" in Boac. That’s about the Marcopper disaster that transpired a year before and how it affected the lives of the people.

That particular project was filmed by Oceanic Films for European television and titled "Swapping Stories". There was a segment in it that included an interview with Tatay Melo,, Hajun and Harold while fishing along the coast of Laylay. There, the old man was heard complaineing about their dwindling catch after the mine spill.

Then a book was later published, Community Theater: Global Perspectives by renowned expert of community theater, Eugene van Erven who came with his crew. The book that featured Teatro Balangaw’s work and the Miciano’s was released with the said unique video record of van Erven's journey in Marinduque.

On page 49 of the book, van Erven wrote:

After the show, Ernie (Cloma) takes the microphone to tell the audience that the play they have seen is the result of a five-day workshop with members of Teatro Balangaw and artist-teachers from PETA and that they dedicate the performance to the people of Marinduque. Melo Miciano, Harold's and Hajun's father, tells me he is proud of his sons and expresses the hope that they will perform the play in other Marinduque communities as well. Several unidentified local environmental activists comment that they equally enjoyed it and that they noticed that a lot of the factual information in the play was new to the audience:

Many people from Boac town have never been up to the barrio. They know about it, generally, but don't seem to care. Looking around me I also noticed how people tuned in to the entertainment elements in the show, but turned off during the more serious parts. But this kind of theater is good; it will draw people's attention, like fish to a bait.

 

Part of a page from Community Theater: Global Perspectives:

More intrigue about Mara Unduk, the dance-drama

Water-damaged photo of the delubyo scene while the mine tailings continued

to enundate daily the Boac nearby.

Teatro Balangaw's Mara Unduk was restaged in 1996 as part of the Easter Sunday program in Boac. One week before the event, in the middle of rehearsals hit the infamous Marcopper mine tailings disaster. All too suddenly, death and destruction was wrought to the historic Boac River.

But coincidentally, there was a scene in Mara Unduk that depicted death and destruction (delubyo), reminiscent of the man-made killing of the river at that time (above photo}. Like life imitating Art, kumbaga, and that did not escape our attention.

Alon and Baylana dance. Daupan Festival for Philippine Revolution, Centennial 1998

To this day, but elsewhere online, people still talk about the Mara Unduk tale. Other than NASA trying to study the two-moon theory which Mara Unduk presented more than a decade before, blogger Bob Demaria stated: "You need to listen to the ancients rather modern science that dreams up scenarios that have no reality."

He went on to mention the Mara Unduk tale providing a link to it, and shared a related story about Mani the moon from the Prose Edda.

He just wants to remind his followers and readers, thus: “Listen  and read the old tales of the ancients who passed them down to us. Modern science knows nothing and is thoroughly ignorant because they’re more intelligent and ancient man was primitive and full of superstitious beliefs.”

Today, I read the news about the passing of Harold Glenn Miciano who played the lead, Alon, many times in many places. Am sharing some of the pictures that have survived natural and man-made disasters. Incidentally, a photo of him as Alon in a Fort Santiago performance had graced The Asia Magazine.

                Harold Glenn at extreme right

A Mara Unduk prformance for Tagalog Fiesta at Nayong Pilipino, 1996.

               Harold Glenn Miciano

Pakibasa rin, read:

A colossal intrigue! From Teatro Balangaw's 1992 two-moon myth to NASA's 2013 two-moon theory.

A colossal intrigue! From Teatro Balangaw's 1992 two-moon myth to Science@NASA's 2013 two-moon theory

 Nawindang lamang ako. Una naming pinalabas sa Boac Town Plaza noong 1992 para sa pista ng bayan ang Mara Unduk. Tungkol ito sa alamat ng dalawang buwan. si Mayana at si Buwana na nagpaikot sa buhay ng mga taga Mara Unduk (nasa ibaba ang buod ng istorya}.

Taong 2013, biglang pumasok sa eksena ang NASA para pag-aralan diumano sa unang pagkakataon ang misteryo ng dalawang buwan sa ating mundo...

Who wouldn't be intrigued? The earth had two moons? My original 1992 Mara Unduk story that our community theater group developed as a dance-drama depicted exactly that, How one of the two celestial bodies crashed onto the earth when a moon goddess was angered causing an end-of-days scenario. Few survivors were washed into an island that sprang from the sea, building a community there, yet over time old mistakes were committed, spreading chaos and corruption, angering the gods once more and causing a new delubyo. Enlightenment ensued finally thereafter.

Now, NASA is investigating the two moon theory, part of its GRAIL Mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on September 10, 2013, watch video.

 

 

From NASA's video, "Did Earth Have Two Moons?" recently posted on YouTube:

"Did earth have two moons? Nothing stirs the soul of poets and lovers like the                    sight of a full moon rising on a warm autumn night. Nothing that is, except the                     sight of two moons rising…

If a paper published recently in the journal "Nature" is right, two moons once                      graced the night skies of earth. 

The idea has not been proven but it is drawing the serious attention                                of researchers. “It’s an intriguing idea”, says David Smith of the                 Massachussets Institute of Technology and it would be a way to explain                           one of the great mysteries of the earth moon system."

Ganyang--ganyan.

"…the two moon theory introduced by planetary scientists Martin Jutzi and Erik

 Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz is the latest attempt. 

NASA’s GRAIL Mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 

September 10 could help unravel the mystery. Smith is the deputy principal 

investigator for GRAIL which stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior

Laboratory. GRAIL consists of two aircrafts that will orbit the moon in 

tandem precisely mapping the moon’s gravitational field and thus reveal

 how the moon’s interior is layered. Among other things, this could test the 

two moon theory. Most scientists believe that when a Mars sized object 

crashed into our planet about 4 1/2 billion years ago the resulting debris cloud  

coalesced to form the moon… the debris cloud actually formed two moons..."

Two moon goddesses, Mayana and Buwana in the days of Bathala.
The subject of Mara Unduk, a Teatro Balangaw play first presented in 1992.
Photo by Mel Cortez (1997), published in BusinessWorld.

The MARA UNDUK Story
by Eli J. Obligacion

In the days of Bathala, when two moons still sailed the sky, the earth was inhabited by highly-gifted spirit-people who lived in harmony with all existence. Such immense powers they possessed, for they controlled the four elements of Fire, Air, Water and Earth.

Mayana angered.

Over time, they became too proud to the point that Mayana, the Goddess of the Lower Moon, was angered, smashing her lunar abode onto the earth. 

Unang Delubyo.

This was known as the first upheaval - that caused an island to spring from the bottom of the the ocean. The few survivors named it Mara Unduk, sea mountain.

Katalona.

The Earth was left under the care of the gentle Goddess of the Higher Moon, Buwana. A new order was established under the rule of the sorcerer, Katalona, who dominated the people's lives. But the survivors who have learned to hunt for food have forgotten who they were or where they came from. They had no notion of their destiny.

 

Magic

Strange dreams haunted the people for a long time. Through magical rituals they began to understand those dreams with the help of the spirit-protector, Marindik.

Alon and Baylana.

Alon, a hunter who served as Katalona's apprentice falls in love with the prettiest maiden, Baylana. The relationship ended in a tragedy for the maiden and for Katalona, he who believed that Alon's mission to chart his people's destiny was loftier that Alon's love for Baylana. 

Chaos

Such lawlessness and disorder descended upon the village that the people lost their sense of hope and direction. Marindik was so displeased that she caused her dwelling on the mountaintop to emit burning rocks, and the heaven to weep.

Deluge 

The villages were submerged in mud and sand, bringing havoc and destruction once again. In the midst of it all, Alon finds union with his primeval past, and emerged in harmony with the elemental spirits and with all existence.

When Poctoy beach was grassy and deserted we were there

The year was 1996. BusinessWorld ran an article for its Travel & Tourism page entitled Marinduque Memories. It mentioned Teatro Balangaw with an accompanying photo of the cast that performed in the Mara Unduk dance drama. The photo was taken in Poctoy, Torrijos’ grassy and deserted white beach then with Mt Malindig in the background. Photo by Miguel Cortez.

Excerpts from the article: “TREASURES. A theater group, Teatro Balangaw, performed a dance drama recreating the rich folklore of the province. Utilizing expressionistic and experimental forms as well as stylized dance movements, the group aims to create an awareness and foster a higher sense of appreciation for Marinduque’s culture and history...”

Intriguing tale to this day of the Mara Unduk story (2021)

 

Just find it intriguing. I wrote the Mara Unduk story way back in 1992, as the premiere presentation of the community theater, Teatro Balangaw, I founded in this island-province of Marinduque.

It was a retelling of the island's folk history as gathered since I was young, from folk tales, beliefs, practices and mythical history.

With students of Marinduque National High School, the acting workshop piece was shown at the Boac Covered Court during the Town Fiesta. It featured as guest actor the young Jeffrey Santos playing the role of Bathala, and Ian Venida (who later joined the cast of Miss Saigon), who sang my original theme song for the dance-drama, Marinduque Akin Ka.

Mara Unduk was restaged in 1996 as part of the Easter Sunday program. A week before the event, in the middle of our rehearsals came the infamous Marcopper environmental disaster, caused by irresponsible mining. 

Death and destruction was wrought to the historic Boac River.

To this day 25 years later, the people of Marinduque are still crying out justice for the tragedy.

And strangely to this day, but elsewhere online, people are still talking about the story of Mara Unduk.

Asks writer Bob Demaria: "Listen and read the old tales of the ancients who passed them down to us. Modern science knows nothing and is thoroughly ignorant because they’re more intelligent and ancient man was primitive and full of superstitious beliefs."

Mara Unduk two moons. Mayana, Goddess of the Lower Moon and Buwana, Goddess of the Higher Moon

Quora

Bob DeMaria

Answered December 24

No the moon came from outside our solar system. But did come relatively close. You need to listen to the ancients rather modern science that dreams up scenarios that have no reality.

The Mara Unduk tale: The Mara Unduk story

(Another story). The story of Mani the moon from the Prose Edda and the 2 children who traveled with Mani. Their names Hjuki and Bil from which the tale of Jack and Jill are derived. Even that story was once called Jack and Gil two brothers

Which brings me to the ancient Hebrew word “Sencherib” Which means “the moon god Sin replaced the two brothers”

Zulu tale of two brothers who rolled the moon across the heavens.

From Revelations how the old serpent (there is an Arab name for the moon which translates into English as “the old one” A fact the moon is older than earth) Which swept a third of the stars from the heavens and flung them to earth. Carolina Bays impact zone of an estimated half million impacts. A hotly debated topic but a fact.

Listen and read the old tales of the ancients who passed them down to us. Modern science knows nothing and is thoroughly ignorant because they’re more intelligent and ancient man was primitive and full of superstitious beliefs.

Do you have any idea of the devastation the moon caused once it became tidally locked into orbit? Here is one image

Ripped from the earth! Revelations 16:18 Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.

Revelations 16:20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. Maybe they really had Vimana’s over 12,000 years ago. Frozen mammoths in Siberia whose only logical explanation was that they were quick frozen after the earth shifted on it’s axis. Nowhere in the Yukon and Siberia can you dig without finding MUCK and BONES

Revelations 12:4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.

The woman is “mother earth” and her son is Sol. The dragon was going to devour her son is a “solar eclipse” Remember three days of darkness and rapidly plummeting temperatures. As described by worshippers of the dawn or of the sun.

Now who and what is this? Remains of two brothers? Don’t know frankly Dust‐cloud moons of the earth

Just thinking Jormungandr is the dragon of Revelations who initiated Ragnarok. Jörmungandr - Wikipedia

Ragnarök - Wikipedia

Thor is Lord Hadad both gods of thunder

Ancient history my boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE MARA UNDUK STORY

by Eli J. Obligacion (1992)

...common ancestry, chaos and catastrophe, enlightenment

Mayana and Buwana, goddesses from the sky.

In the days of Bathala, when two moons still sailed the sky, the earth was inhabited by highly-gifted spirit-people who lived in harmony with all existence. Such immense powers they possessed, for they controlled the four elements of Fire, Air, Water and Earth.

Mayana angered ( Southern Tagalog Kundiman Fiesta 1996)

Over time, they became too proud to the point that Mayana, the Goddess of the Lower Moon, was angered, smashing her lunar abode onto the earth. 

Unang Delubyo (Easter Sunday 1996)

This was known as the first upheaval - that caused an island to spring from the bottom of the the ocean. The few survivors named it Mara Unduk, sea mountain.

Katalona (2004)

The Earth was left under the care of the gentle Goddess of the Higher Moon, Buwana. A new order was established under the rule of the sorcerer, Katalona, who dominated the people's lives. But the survivors who have learned to hunt for food have forgotten who they were or where they came from. They had no notion of their destiny.

 

Magic (2004)

Strange dreams haunted the people for a long time. Through magical rituals they began to understand those dreams with the help of the spirit-protector, Marindik.

Alon and Baylana.(2004)

Alon, a hunter who served as Katalona's apprentice falls in love with the prettiest maiden, Baylana. The relationship ended in a tragedy for the maiden and for Katalona, he who believed that Alon's mission to chart his people's destiny was loftier that Alon's love for Baylana. 

Chaos (1996)

Such lawlessness and disorder descended upon the village that the people lost their sense of hope and direction. Marindik was so displeased that she caused her dwelling on the mountaintop to emit burning rocks, and the heaven to weep.

Deluge (1996)

The villages were submerged in mud and sand, bringing havoc and destruction once again. In the midst of it all, Alon finds union with his primeval past, and emerged in harmony with the elemental spirits and with all existence.

Mystical island of Mara Unduk.

The enlightened Alon becomes whole again as the new Tao -
 he who will lead his people to their rightful and glorious place under the sun.

Golden Age of Marinduque?

Ganap sa Syria: Teatro at False Flags ay Prelude sa Isang Wakas?

ANG PAGKAKASUNOD NG MGA GANAP SA SYRIA SABI NI KANG ILYONG: TEATRO AT FALSE FLAGS AY PRELUDE SA ISANG WAKAS?

Isang buwan na ng sinabi na may pagtatanghal na inahanda na ga-chemical attack kuno para daw pumasok ang US sa eksena at gumawa ng airstrikes sa Syria.

Naganap ngani at sabi ng US 'one time shot' laang yun. Sabay padala naman ng mga Tomahawk-capable destroyers sa Meditteranean puntang Syria ano ka!

Tantyang mga 1 linggo bago makatawid sa Atlantic plus 3-4 days daw bago makarating sa Syria. Kung may full-blown attack ay mga April 22 pa raw ito magaganap.

Tyempo naman na may mga 'conspiracy theorists' sa isang banda, na base sa buwan, bituin at mga tala lamang at hindi base sa Syria o US o Russia ay nagtantiya na gakagulo sa Mundo sa April 23 di dahil sa WW3 kundi dahil sa Planet X/Nibiru. Makikita na raw ito sa gab-i ng petsang yun. Para sa iba naman, ga-trigger daw ng pagkasira ng ulo ng ilan at pagsabog ng kung anu-ano sa kalupaan.

ALIN KAYA SA DALAWA ANG MAGAGANAP SA APRIL 23?

Sabay-sabay namang pinabulaanan ng NASA at ibat-ibang media networks ang balitang ito. 

AY DI ABANGAN NA LAANG MANDIN SABAY TAGO!

Isa-isahin daw natin ngani ang mga naganap:

Published on Feb 13, 2018 (1 month ago): Russia’s Center for Reconciliation in Syria reports that the White Helmets are preparing to stage a chemical weapons attack aimed at creating a provocation for US intervention. Link

3 weeks ago: US training Syria militants for false flag chemical attack as basis for airstrikes – Russian MoD

April 13: US, UK and France launch airstrikes in Syria

Today, Apr 14: Deep State Source: Evidence of Syria Gas Attack Faked: Trump Duped Into Missile Strike, link

Today: April 14: Pentagon says Syria strikes are 'ONE TIME SHOT' to send strong message to Assad

Today, April 14: Goal of Syria strikes was to prevent chemical watchdog's fact-finding mission in Douma – Moscow

PERO, PERO:

Today, Apr 14: A Second US Tomahawk-Capable Destroyer Enters The Mediterranean

DETALYE? IRI:

"This is the second Tomahawk-capable destroyer to enter The Med (along with the USS Donald Cook which can carry 60 Tomahawk missiles).

"...it will take approximately 6-7 days for the Truman Carrier group to cross the Atlantic at 30 knots, plus another 3-4 three days once it arrives in the Mediterranean, to reach Syria, suggesting a full-blown on attack may not take place until after April 22 or so."

Today, Apr 14: Russia vows REVENGE against Donald Trump for Syria airstrikes as World War 3 fears grow.

Delubyo scene mula sa Teatro Balangaw presentation ng Mara Unduk (1996). 

Image ni Katsuko Miyazaki III

TAPOS BIGLANG:

Is The World Going To End On April 23rd, 2018?

DETALYE? IRI: “The Sun appears to precisely clothe Virgo… Jupiter is birthed on April 08, 2018.

On April 23, the sun, moon, and Jupiter will align in the constellation Virgo to bring on the start of the biblical Rapture, according to the latest claims. Conspiracy theorists also say the mysterious planet Nibiru will appear in the sky, followed by the onset of World War III, the rise of the Antichrist, and seven years of Tribulation

“The 12 stars at that date include the nine stars of Leo, and the three planetary alignments of Mercury, Venus and Mars – which combine to make a count of 12 stars on the head of Virgo.\

“Thus the constellations Virgo, Leo and Serpens-Ophiuchus represent a unique once-in-a-century sign exactly as depicted in the 12th chapter of Revelation. This is our time marker.”

"NASA has debunked the existence of Planet X before, calling it a hoax, but Mr Meade stands by his story.

"In an article entitled “Will the World end on 23 April”, Jonathan Sarfati said: “As usual with any astrology (or Christian adaptations of it), one cherry-picks the stars that fit the desired conclusion...

“We won’t know the day or the hour—so we should be prepared at all times!"