We have to go back to prehistoric times to know how our culture developed to appreciate our cultural heritage as a people and rekindle the Filipino diwa (spirit) to guide us along the pathways of the 21st century. — Jocano To understand why Filipinos perceive meanings within baybayin symbols we need to understand too, that ancient Filipinos were animists, thus they believed everything has a spirit, everything has a soul and...
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Why do Filipinos, along with the Hebrews, Nords, Tibetans and other cultures, give writing symbols spiritual and cosmological meanings? If we learn a little more about Filipino tattoos and how they have such meanings deep from the past, then maybe we can understand this tendency in ancient and modern Filipinos better. Lane Wilcken is publishing “Filipino Tattoos Ancient to Modern” and I and many people are hoping it will...
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Well, many of you readers may have already heard of ancient Filipino writing or baybayin. And thanks to many web hobbyists since the 1990s up to today, Filipinos in the motherland and Filipinos all over the world have found one way to learn more about baybayin. Very soon to come out publicly are findings about ancient Filipino math! Baybayin researchers now have something to share not only about the baybayin but also ancient...
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Bonifacio Commandante just told me that Buhayin Baybayin is now on Facebook: (at Facebook now, click here to visit.) Baybayin Buhayin also has an online presence for the iPhone app. The iPhone app out Baybayin Buhayin 1.0 is out. You can download yours now or visit www.baybayinbuhayin.com for more details. “May makabagong mundo na naghahangad na makilala tayo bilang isang Lahi. Ipakilala,...
Read MoreHow 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...
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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...
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