Felipe Luga

13 Hundred Hotel

Pier  2, North Harbor

Manila  City, Philippines

 “… and God said unto them, Be faithful, and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it..."
Genesis 1:28

Felipe “Ipe” Luga

Brgy.  Consuelo Cantilian , Surigao Del Sur.

Philippines

In 1985, when EDSA 1 is being hold, a disarray was also happening on our place Brgy. Consuelo  Cantilan, Surigao Del Sur. Elders  were shouting, telling their unmarried  daughters  and granddaughters  to hide whenever   Felipe Luga’s Descendants pass the  mob. “Magtago na kayo sa loob ng bahay! Nandiyan na ang mga binatang apo ni Ipe! Paparating na!” (Hide yourselves inside your houses! Ipe’s young grandsons are on the way! They’re  coming!) That’s how they say it. We cannot reproach the way  they warn there children, because of an experience.

When I was a child, my father, Crispeniano “Ipin” Duero Luga told me and my siblings a story about his grandfather, Felipe “Ipe” Luga. He said that this old  folk Mestizo , perhaps a half spanish, which made him tall and handsome. Even thought he died  before my father is born, his statement about this man was testified when he saw with his two eyes the old black-and-white photo. He is also lovable and  that might be the reason of unwanted teasing phrase which I had said. The real score of this is when he fell , possibly, sixty women in love of him. My grandfather, Felajio “Layo” Luga is a son from a Mestiza which we hide in the name Aphrodite and he is one of Ipe’s   probably fourty children from different concubines. Who got child on him.

I remembered a story of a nun who fell in love of Ipe to which the reason she quited just to be with him. Another one is about two siblings from a prominent family who as well endmored of him. These harrated stories made almost all parents from our province to be worried for  their daughters. Even to our latest generation, when only his great grandsons are left, these became a traumatic problem for them to yell the brief pithy expression. I was astonished of my great grandfather. The only  thing I can say is, he is unique and thanks to him.