“Form follows feeling.” — David Turner So, can it be that baybayin forms were shaped by feeling in addition to thought? Something more to consider. Are you willing or not so willing, to acknowledge how subjective realms can determine the works of humans? Isn’t human existence on many levels of existence? How does existence and experience manifest in history, in our works, in interpretations, in our...
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Babaylan Mandala I-I Beginning over 400 years ago, the coming of Western colonizers shaped the identity of Filipinos. As the gold of our ancestors and the motherland were wrested away and loaded upon Spanish galleons to be delivered to the conquerors’ home across the seas, so too was the richness of Filipino identity and spirituality replaced with dysfunctional perceptions of the superiority of the conquerors’ race,...
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In many Filipino dialects. the pronoun of “siya” indicates both “she” and “he.” It has no gender indication. “siya” How do you think that a non-gender specific pronoun such as “siya” has affected Filipino thought? On gender relations? On egalitarianism? Many western languages have gender specific singular pronouns. Her/Him (English), Haar/Hem (Dutch), Elle/Ille...
Read MoreSome books and print publications on Baybayin. Baybayin: The Ancient Script of the Philippines, by Bayani Mendoza De Leon. Doctrina Christiana, 1991 Philippine Centennial reprint. Introduction to Baybayin, by Christian Cabuay. Available at www.baybayin.com. Prehistoric Writing, by Cecilio G. Salcedo and Indigenous Filipino Writing, by Antoon Postma. The Earliest Filipinos, Book 2. Chapter 15. Kasaysayan, The Story of...
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“Indigenous Filipino Values: A Foundation for a Culture of Non-Violence”Here is a webpage with not only a short description of Katrin de Guia’s paper on “Indigenous Filipino Values: A Foundation for a Culture of Non-Violence” and a description of Sikolohiyang Pilipino, but also some information on the values of Filipino Personhood (Pagkataong Filipino): Bahala Na is one of the values of Filipino Personhood illustrated above....
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