Tungkung Langit and Alunsina (Panay)In the beginning everything was shapeless and formless. The earth, the sky, the sea, and the air were almost mixed up. In a word, there was only confusion. Then from the depth of this formless void there appeared the god Tungkung Langit and the goddess Alunsina.It was not known just where these two deities came from but it is related by old Bisayan folk that Tungkung Langit fell in love with Alunsina. After he had courted her for many years, they married and made their home in the highest part of heaven. There the water was always warm and the breeze was forever cool. In this place order and regularity began.Tungkung Langit was a loving, hard-working god. He wanted to impose order over the confused world. He decided to arrange the world so that the heavenly bodies would move regularly. On the other hand, Alunsina was a lazy, jealous, selfish goddess. She sat at the window all day doing nothing.Sometimes she would leave her home, sit down by a pool near the door, and comb her long, jet-black hair all day long. One day Tungkung Langit told his wife that he would be away for some time. He said he must make time go on smoothly and arrange everything in the world.When he was gone, Alunsina set the breeze to spy on Tungkung Langit. Tungkung Langit found this out and he became very angry. After he returned home, he told her that it was ungodly of her to be jealous since there were no other gods in the world except the two of them.Alunsina resented this reproach, and they quarrelled. In his anger, Tungkung Langit drove his wife away. No one knew where she went. Several days later, Tungkung Langit felt very lonely. He realised that he should not have lost his temper. But it was too late.Once vibrant with Alunsina’s sweet voice, his home became cold and desolate. In the morning when he woke up, he would find himself alone. In the afternoon when he came home, he would feel the same loneliness creeping deep in his heart because there was no one to meet him at the doorstep or soothe the aching muscles of his arms.For months, Tungkung Langit was in utter desolation. He could not find Alunsina, try hard as he could. And so, in desperation, he decided to do something in order to forget his sorrows. For months and months he thought, but his mind seemed pointless; his heart weary and sick. He needed something to ease his lonely world.One day, while he was sailing across the regions of the clouds, a thought came to him. He would make the sea and the earth, and the earth and the sea suddenly appeared. However, the sombre sight of the lonely sea and the barren land irritated him. So he came down to earth and planted the ground with trees and flowers.Then he took his wife’s treasured jewels and scattered them in the sky, hoping that when Alunsina would see them she might be induced to return home. The goddess’s necklace became the stars, her comb the moon and her crown the sun. However, despite Tungkung Langit’s efforts, Alunsina did not come back.Until now, some elders of Panay say Tungkung Langit lives alone in his palace in the skies. Sometimes, he would cry out his pent-up emotion and his tears would fall down upon the earth. When it thunders hard, it is Tungkung Langit sobbing, calling for his beloved Alunsina to come back, entreating her so hard that his voice reverberates across the fields and the countryside.Which of the following BEST illustrates the moral lesson of the story?Group of answer choicesBe careful in every action as what was already done cannot be changed.Love cannot thrive once trust is lost.Jealousy may destroy the relationship of two people in love.Trust is essential in loving someone. PreviousNext