Pampanga dances the ‘Kuraldal’

SASMUAN, Pampanga – Dance to be healed or bear a child.
One of the oldest and major settlements in the province, Sasmuan town celebrated a five-day ritual dancing starting January 6, which was believed to not only help sickness-afflicted people but those mothers or women wanting to bear a child.
In honor of their patron saint, St. Lucy, hundreds of people coming from different provinces trooped to the chapel of St. Lucy in this year’s “Kuraldal Atlung Ari,” just in time with the celebration of the Feast of Three Kings.
The local government of Sasmuan disclosed people come here “bringing with them hopes that an ardent wish, a long-awaited pregnancy and an immediate cure for disease will soon be achieved.”
With “endless body movement of arms and feet in a merry environment. The feast is an olden practice among riverbank communities in Pampanga. The term ‘kuraldal’ was believed to be a Spanish term ‘curar’ means ‘to heal,’” it added.
As they danced, people shouted “Viva Santa Lucia! Pwera sakit!” (Long Live, St. Lucy! Deliver us from sickness!)
Healing, though, was not the sole reason for other people’s participation in Kuraldal. Devotees and pilgrims have been noted to wish for a child or its safe delivery, a safe trip, a successful board exam, or luck in the numbers game or a business venture, it said.
Rosario Pamintuan, 52, remembered when she did Kuraldal during the year 1987.
She narrated that it was one of the rituals she did to bear a child. Now, boasting is her unica hija named Rosa Bianca who’ll be turning 23 this February.
Kapampangan writer Nina Tomen who authored “Kuraldal Atlung Ari and Libad Bangka ng Apung Iru: Beyond the revelry” said that Sasmuan’s Kuraldal and the fluvial procession of Apung Iru or St. Peter, the patron of Apalit town, is considered “two of Pampanga’s most important religious events that are largely unknown outside the province.”
On January 10, a “Kawakasan” (ending) of the Kuraldal will be witnessed, said Tomen.
Published in the year 2008 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the book takes a look at the roles of organized groups as well as ordinary residents in perpetuating the cults of the said two saints. ●By Joelyn G. Baluyut
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