How would Filipino baybayin enthusiast “Bing” Veloso be able to connect with our ancestors in order to come about the deeper meanings of baybayin in Saysayin ng Baybayin? How would Guillermo Tolentino, Philippine National Artist and sculptor of monuments, make a connection with historic figures to yield his life-like sculptures? How would he connect with ancestors to uncover meanings of baybayin symbols? And how...
Read More
published 1992 Figure 15. Master Table showing all 43 letters of the expanded Baybayin (Page 46, Baybayin: The Ancient Script of the Philippines) One of the available contemporary printed resources on baybayin is Baybayin: The Ancient Script of the Philippines, written by Bayani Mendoza de Leon and published in 1992. Contrary to any wan internet searches for this book or its unavailability on Amazon.com, this...
Read MoreChristian Cabuay of baybayin.com has begun his work for a new baybayin documentary film. Get updates and info on it at...
Read More
My friend Leny Strobel witnessed spanish economists discussing “economic gains of the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines” with historians from the University of the Philippines. The Filipino historians, descendants of the native people of the islands now called the Philippines, brought up the: “psychic and epistemic violence of colonialism among Filipinos. What was supposed to be an academic dialogue about...
Read More