Philippine Fairy Tales (XV) - Philippinische Märchen (XV): Für Gold sterben - Die for gold

 

Dies ist eine einfache Geschichte von einem Mann, der seine Familie aus der Armut heben wollte, nachdem er so viele Geschichten von Freunden gehört hatte, die von Lumpen zu Reichtümern in Diwawal aufgestiegen waren und als kleine Bergarbeiter mit einem Reichtum zurückkehrten, der ihre Vorstellungskraft übertraf. Er wusste, dass es sehr gefährlich war, ein kleiner Bergarbeiter in Diwalwal zu sein. War er bereit, für Gold in diesem verlassenen, gefährlichen Land namens Diwalwal zu sterben?

Der Berg Diwata ist reich an Gold und Kupfer und wird seit Jahren von großen Bergbauunternehmen sowie Hunderten von kleinen Bergarbeitern mit Spitzhacken und Schaufeln abgebaut, die sich durch ein Netzwerk von Tunneln graben, ähnlich einem Bienenstock, beleuchtet von Fackeln oder Kerzen, auf der Suche nach dem sprichwörtlichen Mutterlode - einem langen großen weißen Felsen unter der Erde, der mit Gold durchzogen ist. Einmal entdeckt, werden kleine Bergarbeiter sofort zu Millionären. Viele dieser kleinen Bergarbeiter glauben, dass Diwata, was "verzauberte Göttin" bedeutet, der Geist ist, der im Mutterlode lebt.... 

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This is a simple story of a man who wanted to lift his family out of poverty after hearing so many stories of friends who rose from rags to riches in Diwawal and returned as small miners with wealth beyond their imagination . He knew that being a small-time miner in Diwalwal was very dangerous. Was he willing to die for gold in this deserted, dangerous land called Diwalwal?
Rich in gold and copper, Mount Diwata has been mined for years by large mining companies as well as hundreds of small-scale miners with picks and shovels who dig through a network of tunnels, similar to a beehive, lit by torches or candles, in search of the proverbial mother lode - a long, large white rock underground that is streaked with gold. Once discovered, small miners become instant millionaires. Many of these small miners believe that Diwata, meaning "enchanted goddess", is the spirit that lives in the mother lode....

AURELIO “BOY” PENA

 

Although his first passion was painting in the early 60’s, Aurelio “Boy” Pena spent almost his entire professional life as editor and freelance writer, writing features and fiction for various national and international magazines.

 After working for Dole Stanfilco as editor for six years, he took a course in Magazine Writing at the Writers Institute of America based in New York. Seeing his output in writing and photography, the Paris-based Sipa Press, a global news photo agency took him in as their Philippine photojournalist, covering world events. This was followed by Asiaweek magazine which took him as its Philippine correspondent. 

Between those years as news editor, photojournalist and fiction writer in the 1980s, 1990s to 2000, Pena operated and managed a few small businesses that were outside his passion for writing and painting. These were a publishing outfit producing trade directories, manuals, road maps and guidebooks for ten years before opening his own import export agency office that looks for buyers and sellers in the global markets and help arrange shipments for both imports and exports for another ten years.

Aurelio "Boy" is always with me in my office!

 Despite dropping from college after six years at the University of Mindanao, Pena earned his masters in modern business management from the New York based Alexander Hamilton Institute. This opened new opportunities for him at the USAID project Private Investments and Trade as consultant, later at the German project GETZ and finally at the Japan International Cooperation Agency or JICA as chief editor of their industry cluster program in the Philippines. His links with these foreign aid agencies gave him opportunities for travels to Germany, France, Japan, and Indonesia in the 1990s.

Pena’s return to his original passion, painting, was started when someone who just came from a European tour and visited the art museums and was so enamored by the masterpieces that she begged him to copy some of famous pieces from a book bought in Paris. He was forced to make replicas of masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, etc. That started his journey back to his old passion, painting. Although, he also did some original abstracts, Pena likes to do replicas of both Fernando Amorsolo and Juan Luna--- as his personal tributes to these two great Filipino artists…..