Jose Radin Llorca Garduque Poet Epic

101 Interpretation of the Epic Alim

101.

Interpretasyon ng Epikong “Alim”

(Interpretation of the Epic “Alim”)



1.

Noong unang panahon, pulos patag ang lupa

Maliban sa bundok na dalawa

Bundok Kalawitan sa Kanluran

At Bundok Amuyaw sa Silangan!

(Once upn a time, all of the earth were plains

Except for two mountains

Mt. Kalawitan on the West

And Mt. Amuyaw on the East!)



2.

Ang kalikasan ay sagana

Ang mga tao ay payapa

(Nature was then bountiful

People were then peaceful)



3.

Ngunit dumating ang isang delubyo

Nagkandamatay ang lahat ng mga tao

(But a deluge arrived

All people died)



4.

Maliban sa magkapatid na dalawa

Sa bundok napadpad ang bawat isa

(Except for two siblings

Each of them landed on the mountains)



5.

Sa Amuyaw na kabundukan

Ang lalaki na si Wigan

(On Amuyaw mount

There was the man named Wigan)



6.

Sa Kalawitan na kabundukan

Ang babae na si Bugan

(On Kalawitan mount

There was the woman named Bugan)



7.

Nang humupa ang baha

Nagtagpo silang dalawa

(When the flood subsided

The two of them united)



8.

Subalit isang araw, nakadama si Bugan

Na may buhay sa kanyang sinapupunan

(Yet one day, Bugan felt something

In her womb, someone was living)



9.

Siya'y nagimbal sa natuklasan

Nagtangkang magpakamatay si Inang Bugan

(Upon her discovery, she was horrified

Mother Bugan tried to commit suicide)



10.

Sa dali-dali'y biglang nagpakita

Si Makanungan na bathala

(Soon, there suddenly appeared someone

He is a god named Makanungan)



11.

Kanyang pinigilan si Bugan

Dahil ganap niya itong nauunawaan

(He tried to stop Bugan

Because he could fully understand)



12.

Sila ay pinayagan ng diyos na magsama

Sapagkat sa mundo'y wala nang taong iba

(They were allowed to become a couple

Because in the world, there were no more people)



13.

Ang magkapatid na mag-asawa

Marami ang naging bunga

(The couple siblings

Got many offsprings)



14.

Apat na babae

(Four females)

At lima ay lalaki

(And five males)



15.

Sa kahuli-hulihan

Sila-sila rin ang nag-asawahan

(And soon after

They married one another)



16.

Subalit may natatangi sa kanila

Ang lalaking si Igon na walang asawa

(But there's someone unique among them

He's the man, Igon, who got no tandem)



17.

Isang araw, dumating ang ayaw ng lahat

Ito ang panahon ng tagsalat

(One day, there arrived something everyone didn't like

The season of famine did strike)



18.

Kaya upang suyuin ang mga diyos

Ritwal ng pag-aalay kanilang idinaos

(So in order that the gods could be pleased

They rendered a ritual burnt offering of beasts)



19.

Nang sa alay kinapos na sila

Kanilang inihandog maliit na daga

(And when of sacrificial beasts they were out

They only offered just a small rat)



20.

Sa kabila ng lahat, walang paring tugon

Kaya isang krimen ang naging opsyon

(After all, there answered no voice

So it was crime that became the choice)



21.

Walang pakundangang kinitilan ng buhay

Kapatid na si Igon ang ipinang-alay

(They dared to kill their brother

It was Igon whom they did offer)



22.

At biglang nagpakita

Si Makanungan na bathala

(And suddenly, there appeared someone

It was the god, Makanungan)



23.

Lahat sila ay isinumpa

Iyon ang simula ng digmaan sa lupa!

He cursed everyone

That was the beginning of war in the land!)



-03/10/2012

(Dumarao)

*for Lit. Day 2012

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