December 8, 2012 was a special day for the Kapampangans. At the Robinson's Starmills in Pampanga, school children from different towns of the province joined a street dancing competition celebrating ancient Kapampangan beliefs in deities. Guest performers were the Aeta children who easily drew applauses from the crowd.
In her paper "King Sinukwan Mythology and the Kapampangan Psyche", Prof Julieta C Mallari, director of the UP Extemsion Program in Pampanga on the significance of the Sinukwan states,"The Kapampangans cling to their primordial history, the childhood of their race, and their original traits. Most of the time, they summon up remembrance of ancient accounts, whether in the spirit of nostalgia or in a deep conviction, to glimpse contemporary significance in the lingering Sinukuan myth. Deeply entwined in the realm of their collective consciousness is this mythical and racial association. Historical events continually unfurl and lodge in their memory. As they go through their life’s episodes, they take refuge behind such saving power of their archaic base, possibly to overcome the temporal finiteness of their being, i.e., as individuals or as a tribe. Despite the dynamic cultural changes and rapid emergence of scientific knowledge, therefore, the myth persists and resists even fatal forces that strike the race. "
