GAHUM | ANC

In the friar dictionary Vocabulario de la Lengua Bisaya (1637), the Augustinian Alonso Mentrida’s lexical entry for the word gahum translates to poder. Poder or power.

Tatay Mirasol, a leader of the Panay Bukidnon community in Iloilo, laments the loss of ancestral lands due to government-initiated projects, as we see the sacred river of Halawod irreversibly damaged due to the construction of a mega dam. Throughout the episode, gahum unravels its nature as both inner power, a sacred element in the Panay Bukidnon lifeworld, and the gahum exercised by those who wield economic and political resources, resulting in the loss of ancestral lands and the eventual erasure of indigenous peoples’ communities.

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