SINULOG
If you’re familiar with the festival, you must also know about the Sinulog Parade. It has generated the interest of millions of people, including local celebrities and tourists who visit Cebu just so they can join in on the celebration. Sinulog dance choreography, costumes, and props are a year-long preparation for most contingents.
This festive event can be traced back to the year 1521, the year that marked the Christianization of the Philippines. By then, the country was a group of islands with different identities and leaders. The discovery of Cebu by a Portuguese explorer named Ferdinand Magellan paved the way to Christianity in the country.
At the time, Queen Juana was given an image of the Infant Jesus of Prague by Ferdinand Magellan as a baptismal gift. This was all before Magellan was killed by Lapu-Lapu, a chieftain of Mactan who resisted the colonizers.
WHAT IS PIT SENYOR?
Pit Senyor is short for “panangpit sa Senyor” in Cebuano. In English it means “Call on the Child Jesus” or “Pray to the Child Jesus.” Before the dancing begins, the “Sinug” dancer would ask for your name and your prayer-petition.
The dancer would then include in their dance-prayer your petition along with your name, so the chanting becomes “Pit Senyor, kang tatay kini,” or the equivalent name of the person asking for a petition. Afterward, the candles used (and paid for by the customer) are lit at a certain portion outside the church and the customer continues to pray there, leaving with the candles still burning along with the others.
The dance steps inside or around the church are still the same basic steps - two steps forward and one step backward. Every Friday, you will find people doing the Sinulog dance in Sto. Nino Church, where devotees go for the Novena and offer their prayers to the image of Sto. Niño.
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