Pinagbuhatan and Bitukang Manok -- What's in a Name?
Bitukang Manok--It is often romanticized now as the river of the revolution in Pasig.The waterway that Bonifacio and his close associates traversed on the way to Pasig for an assembly, where the decision to raise arms was reached in May 1896. It is now being referred to as Bitukang Manok yet nowhere in the early memoirs and journals of the revolution was it ever called as such. What's in a name? Meanwhile, Bitukang Manok traverse first to what many believe as its boca--the mouth, its beginning . For this reason, does the place fits its name in Tagalog -- Pinagbuhatan? What's in a name? PINAGBUHATAN In the mid-1990s, eminent Pasig historian Dr. Luciano PR Santiago hinted at the possibility that the first mission in Pasig founded by the Spaniards in 1572 could actually be Pinagbuhatan. He suggested that the men of Legazpi reached the area on the feast day of San Sebastian, January 20, thereby establishing the foundation of the church and the new mission under the name and protec...