paleric

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

NA' TAOTAO TUMANO'

›
  FIESTA SCHEDULE FROM 1977 NA' TAOTAO TUMANO' is a Chamorro term used on Guam for the communal meal served to the faithful who att...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

FAMILIA : CELIS

›
The center of the CELIS family is Saipan, but there is a small branch on Guam. It all began with a man named AGATÓN CELIS from the Philip...
1 comment:
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

HOW TO SAY "DULCE NOMBRE"

›
  The name of Guam's cathedral-basilica is a Spanish one. Dulce Nombre de María, which means "the Sweet Name of Mary." It'...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

FINO' MAN ÅMKO' : WHAT GOES AROUND

›
  Todo håfa bidå-mo siempre un binisita. Everything you do will surely visit you. This is one Chamorro way of saying "what goes around ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

DIALING A WRONG NUMBER IN 1972

›
  In modern times, dialing a wrong number brings you to a dead end. Lucky if the other party even says goodbye before they hang up. Lucky if...
1 comment:
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

NEITHER SEEN NOR HEARD

›
  We used to hear before that children should only be seen, not heard. But the older Chamorro custom in many families was that children shou...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

GUAM WHALER KILLED BY WHALE

›
  Whaling was dangerous business. Those whales can be huge. They have great power. And they do not enjoy being hunted. They can retaliate an...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

HALÅGUAK

›
  There was a time when the sound of the name HALÅGUAK sent shivers down the spine of some war survivors. Often spelled JALAGUAC in the old ...
Monday, July 21, 2025

BATTLE OF THE GREEN HOUSE

›
  THE GREEN HOUSE IN BARRIGADA The battle between the Americans and the Japanese over Guam in 1944 involved many different clashes. There wa...
Friday, July 18, 2025

ATAN GUIHE GI SAN LAGO

›
  This is a Chamorro hymn to Our Lady of Mount Carmel which teaches us how the early Christians associated the Blessed Mother with a cloud c...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

KOSTUMBRE : KÅNTAN DESPEDIDA

›
  An old custom among our grandparents' generation which has pretty much died out now is the composing of songs specifically for certain...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

TÅYA' ILU-ÑA!

›
  Manet came running as fast as he could to his father's ranch house in Luayao, just past Barrigada heading towards the eastern cliffs o...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

NOTABLE VICTIMS OF 1918 INFLUENZA

›
  The 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic hit Guam like a ton of bricks. It began in November and, by the end of that month, more people had die...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

FAMILIAN ANONAS

›
A branch of the Guerrero family on Guam is called the familian ANONAS . The  anonas  is a tropical fruit, related to the  åtes  and  lagua...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

paleric
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.