The Story of Sierra Madre | by Robert Enrique
The air of the burgeoning world hummed with the quiet chaos of creation. From the divine dust of a forgotten age, the Goddess of Essential Entropy and Life/Death, Heleigiri—also known as Yanu Ayen—walked the mortal earth again, reborn as the woman named Sierra. Her divine essence was a mere whisper beneath her mortal skin, yet the power of the Kataas-taasan (the Highest Realm) was bound to her fate. Sierra was not long alone. Under the warm, vibrant sky, she was sought by the Supreme God, Bathala. Their reunion, a cosmic echo of a previous life's devotion, resulted in the birth of three celestial daughters: Hanan, the goddess of the morning, Tala, the goddess of the stars, and Mayari, the goddess of the moon. Fearing the mingling of pure divinity with the chaos of the mortal realm, Bathala commanded a separation. He tasked his son, Apolaki, the mighty Sun God, with a solemn duty. Apolaki was reincarnated on earth as Pako-Ilo, a mortal boy who was the child of Sierra and...