The story of Sugilanon Bayluhay is the story of how
Malays came into the island that they named Panay. The Malays came from a kingdom with a cruel king and they migrate from that kindom to island that owned by Ati/Aeta and they used gold to exchange for the land where they are going to start a new life.
This story is about the impower of imbalance. Mankind
is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows.
The Sugilanon Bayluhay is a tradition of people in
Panay known as Ati/Aeta where the Malays requests some essentials for their living and as an exchange they the Aeta some things that are made of gold. Barter is a term that means exchange . The traditional culture of Aetas represents the way of living of people long time ago in the Philippines. As the time passed by these cultures will not be disappear because ther were some people that are indigenous and they continue spreading their kinds as a proud people of the Republic of the Philippines