The talisman of the engkantado was of equal power to his physical strength, so he could not escape. However, in doing so, he could not let go of one without being crushed by the other. To save himself, Bernardo had to use his herculean strength to hold the boulders apart to prevent them from toppling upon him. The engkantado lured him to a cave under the mountains of Montalban, using a powerful magical talisman known as an agimat to trap him between two massive boulders, which continuously fell towards each other. REDEMPTION OF HUMANITYĪnother legend tells how the Spanish engaged a shaman, known as engkantado in the Philippines, to use magic to trap him. After ensuring his parents’ release, he decided he would no longer fight for God and King but fight for God and redeem the human race from wickedness and battle against sin. He could not understand how he could, on the one hand, claim belief in a God of love while treating two human beings who had found true love together so cruelly. He now him as was no better and maybe worse than the same pagans he had fought against for him. He found the King’s treatment of his parents shocking. For Bernardo, the revelation had turned his whole life upside down and bitterly challenged Don Rubio to a duel and killed him. After this news, his entire perception of the King changed. He had fought against many of the king’s pagan enemies thinking that his sovereign, being a Christian, was morally superior to them. However, when Don Rubio revealed his parentage to him and how the king had mistreated his parents, Bernardo became bitter and resentful. He fought for the King in many battles, becoming his greatest knight. Bernardo soon grew big and incredibly strong and became a master swordsman. At the King’s command, Don Rubio adopted Bernardo as his foster son. As a result, the king imprisoned Don Sancho, intending to punish him further by blinding him, and doubled the guard on his sister. Rejected by Jimena, the jealous Don Rubio let it be known to King Alfonso about his sister’s love affair and the baby.
The priest who baptized him suggested they name him after Bernardo del Carpio, the legendary Spanish hero, and the baby was Christened Bernardo Carpio. The child grew fast, quickly gaining extraordinary strength anything he grasped broke in his hands. Despite her brother forbidding her any liaison with men, a baby boy was born to Jimena and Don Sancho. One of the king’s generals, Don Rubio, had designs on her she rejected his advances in favor of Don Sancho, who was the one she truly loved. King Alfonso was very protective of his sister and kept her in seclusion. In one version of the legend, Bernardo was the son of Don Sancho Díaz of Cerdenia and his lover Jimena, the sister of King Alfonso of Spain. However, all tales concerning him commonly present him as a man of exceptional strength and courage sharing many attributes with other cultural heroes and legendary strongmen in other parts of the world. In others, he is human with extraordinary muscular power and master swordsman, and some say whatever his fingers grasped died. In some stories, he is a giant of enormous stature and strength. According to this local legend, the old gods punished Bernardo for insolence, chaining him to the Montalban Gorge, where he must stand forever, preventing two mountains from colliding together by the strength in his arms and body. He is often associated with the Montalban Gorge, formed by the Marikina River, a part of the Pamitinan Protected Landscape, and the Pamitinan Cave, which was once known as The Cave of Bernardo Carpio. The area has a geological fault system and known for earthquakes. In earlier times, the region was known as Montalban and is still sometimes referred to by that name today. Legends of Bernardo mostly center around a mountainous region of the Philippines known as Rodriguez today. There are many different versions of tales about Bernardo, and presented here are some of the legends and folklore of how he became associated with causing earthquakes. In some stories, he must continuously hold back two massive stone slabs toppling in upon him to prevent himself from being crushed to death.
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One of these tells of a culture hero named Bernardo Carpio, a legendary strongman whose struggles to break free from an underground trap causes earthquakes. In the Philippines, several etiological myths and legends attempt to explain the cause and origin of earthquakes.
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