Sierra Bullones
It was only a 20 minute drive from Carmen to Sierra Bullones, on a fairly good road. We arrived at this:
I think experts call those kinds of façade as Gothic or Neo-Gothic? The tall and slender types - pointed (mostly) at the top. Ganun! Yes, they are of similar build (Carmen, Batuan, Hanopol, Balilihan, Corella).
Entering the church, I noticed it's not huge and wide as it looks from the outside. Just big enough..,
The altar. Simple and serene. Even the 'retablo' is appealingly simple - unlike at many churches.
But there's something I don't like that's getting too common among churches (like in that one). They're making the (otherwise blank) walls of their altars as "bulletin boards" for posting announcements, etc. I personally think it's not proper and should be stopped, howsoever 'holy' or 'noble' the announcement.
The church has a big "crossing dome" (even if you look at it from the outside), but this is unusual...
On this one, they probably don't like anymore sunlight, so they boarded it up like that. At least there is still some semblance of the dome, even if just a round ceiling design. Oh ha? Walang basagan ng trip!
And this is the "priest's view". It's a simple and clean church without so many distracting adornments.
The aisle is already colored maroon, so no need for a red carpet. But what does that logo mean?
Oh, travel is also 'entertainment' di ba? We often bump into matters worth pondering or talking about! Hep, 'wag lang blasphemous, baka magalit si Padre Jose! Ah, trivia: In Region 8 (Samar, Leyte, Biliran Islands), there are so many priests named Jose, they now even have an organization, albeit 'informal'!
On the street, by the church front gate, you can see that just beside(to its left) is the Rural Health Unit.
That's their munisipyo, right after the health center, after the church. They're all beside each other!
"Separate but attached"? Something like that hehe. I'm not sure if that barangay hall was built first or was just lately added. But when you look at it, you know its not part of the municipal hall, but it looks like a protruding offspring! Just like a pearl still attached to the mother-of-pearl. Nakaka-aliw tingnan!
Still standing by the gate of the health center and church, I looked across the munisipyo and saw this:
Dambuhalang Grade 1 hahaha! I stood below it to shoot this frontal view of their Municipal Hall.
Wait... Sierra Bullones... what does that name really mean? My driver/guide says he is not so sure. We checked online and saw that there are so many interpretations - some are incredible, some unreliable!
Kesyo "big mountains" daw, kesyo "mountains of fog", one even says "mountains of gold". Really now? If it were the Spaniards who gave the name, "bullon" doesn't mean big, fog or gold in Spanish. Malayo!
Ah, "sierra" is easy - because it means 'mountains', a 'series of mountains', or 'mountain range/s'. Now what about "bullones"? Well, the Spanish Dictionary that I used in college says "bullón" means "puff" or "puffy". Yes, as in "puff the magic dragon" hehehe! Couldn't the Spaniards have meant just that? Puffy?
I'm equating that to a favorite of my Lola, "mangas de bullón" which is exactly "puff" or puffy sleeves" in Spanish. Maybe those prailes thought about the hills around the place as bullónes? Hmm, kasi they are more of like "umbok-umbok" (humpy), so the topography is 'hilly' but with no towering mountain/s.
And, is that just a coincidence or is there some historical link that, the favorite wear (the folk dress) of the Eskaya Tribe has "mangas de bullón"? Yes, the puffy sleeves! Many of them live in Brgy. Canta-ub!
Oist, if you are curious about the Eskaya People, me too. But, I'll be back soonest for that.
Meanwhile, let's return to today's Sierra Bullones town center. Aba, they have a Municipal Emporium!
Let's go to the next town, shall we?
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