The Legend of Mount Kanlaon
There once lived on the island of Negros a princess
named Anina who lived a very sheltered life.
One day, Anina overheard her father talking to
the kingdom's chief priestess. The priestess was frantic about a report that they
could not find a single maiden who was unblemished.
Later, Anina asked her father what it was all
about, and the king finally broke down. There had long been a seven-headed
dragon threatening the kingdom, and the monster could only be appeased if an
unblemished maiden was sacrificed to it.
In fear, all the women in the kingdom had cut
themselves to disqualify themselves from the sacrifice. Parents cut their own
baby girls so as to spare the infants from the sacrifice. But the king and the
queen couldn't bring themselves to mar their daughter's beauty, and so Anina
was the only remaining unscarred female in the kingdom.
Anina did not weep. Instead, she willingly
offered herself for the sacrifice. Fortuitously, on the day she was to be
brought to the mountain where the dragon lived, a man calling himself Khan Laon
appeared. (Khan in his language meant a noble lord.) He said he came from a
kingdom far away in order to slay the dragon and spare Anina's life.
No one believed the dragon could be killed, but
Khan Laon insisted that his ability to talk to animals would help him. He asked
the help of the ants, the bees and the eagles.
The ants swarmed over the dragon's body and
crept under its scales to bite its soft, unprotected flesh, while the bees stung
the fourteen eyes of the dragon till it was blind. The largest eagle carried
Khan Laon to the mountain where he was able to easily chop off the seven heads
of the writhing beast.
In gratitude, the king gave Khan Laon his
daughter Anina to be his bride, and the people named the mountain after the
noble lord.
And that is how, according to the story, Mount
Kanlaon got its name. That it is a volcano is because of the spirt of the dead
dragon.
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