My first trip to the town of Moises Padilla (formerly known as Magallon) brought me about a lot of realization being a Negrense. While I was born and raised in Negros, my road-trips were mostly along the coastal towns and cities. And by coastal towns and cities, I mean it's simply because of a need to go to a certain destination either to run errands, or again to run work-related errands.
While these coastal towns and cities have a lot of stories to tell about their respective history, and heritage for that matter by going to museums just like what you can find in the cities of Silay and Talisay, it's knowing the history and everything and more of inner municipalities and cities that interests me more as a frustrated historian. Why? Most inner local government units (LGU) don't have museums and libraries that can tell their history. You have to talk to the elderlies who have been living there for a long time and let them talk about what life has been like in that particular place in the past years or decades.
One particular thing that fascinated me about Moises Padilla is the hispanization of the Hiligaynon word "magayon" which means beautiful into "Magallon", the former name of the town, I don't know when or who did the hispanization, but my exposure to the study of the Spanish language tells me that the letter (Ll) is pronounced as (y) as in the Spanish word "caballo", spelled as "kabayo" in Hiligaynon,
Further research made me realize that the town's original name Magayon was because of the town was known to have lots of beautiful ladies who were "mga magayon." Now that I've got the dots connected, let this blog be the platform of getting to know more the "kagayon sang Negrense" or "The Negrense Beauty".
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