Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors
1617. The Spanish friar, Padre Enciso, the encomendero of one of the islands in Las Islas Filipinas, rules with unrelenting toughness and insatiable libido, "To tame these savages," he proclaims. He salves his cruelty effectively by invoking the soul's emancipation through Jesus' suffering; and the hospitable and embracing indigenous Malay is doomed.
