Sinulog

"We really hate paganism but we celebrate Sinulog". Why is it so? Maybe because Spaniards tolerate us or else they make us suffer during the time that we are in there hands but, Do you ever ask your self why we celebrate Sinulog? This is just a pick up questions that I know most of you ask for it. But since it's traditionally celebrated by us, We left it hanging.

 Since as we all know Sinulog is an annual festival held on the third Sunday of January. Literally the features of Sinulog as we can see is the street parade with participants in different places dancing to the rhythm of recycle drums, trumpets, and native gongs. Each participants presents there own emblem that represents them as a whole wherein that emblem is the product that they make proud of and also  to say thanks to miracles Santo Nino.

 According to Wikipedia on April 5, 1521, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived and planted the cross on the shores of Cebu, claiming the territory for Spain. he presented the image of the child Jesus, the Santo Nino, as baptismal gift to Hara Amihan, wife of Rajah Humabon. But despite the fact that Ferdinand Magellan presented the image of the child Jesus the point is Sinulog for us focuses not on the ritual itself but on the historical aspects that symbolize the Cebuano people's pagan origin and the country's embrace to Christian faith.