by Omehra | Sep 16, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Creative Expressions, Performances, Art, Poetry, Kapwa and Other Indigenous and Filipino Values, Modern Practices
Babaylan Mandala I-I Beginning over 400 years ago, the coming of Westerner 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...
by Omehra | Jul 27, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing
Periodically, we will post from the Babaylan Yahoo Group archives. The links offered invite the reader to study, reflect, meditate on the content of these materials. Some of the texts are journalistic in nature, some are scholarly, some are personal anecdotes. Please...
by Omehra | Jul 23, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Historic Context, Modern Practices
Third in a series, posted in 2008 at Global Balita Landscapeby Gemma Cruz Araneta Re-inventing the babaylan How did the babaylan cope with the onslaught of “cross and sword”? After the bloody revolts against their sworn enemies, the early Spanish missionaries; after...
by Omehra | Jul 22, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Definitions, Historic Context
First in a series, posted in 2008 at Global Balita Landscapeby Gemma Cruz Araneta Silencing the babaylan The BABAYLAN, a native priestess or spiritual leader in the days of datus and rajahs, has always been a subject of fascination to latter day Filipina feminists....
by Omehra | Jul 21, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Historic Context
Second in a series, posted in 2008 at Global Balita Landscapeby Gemma Cruz Araneta Betraying the babaylan Thanks to archive moles like historian Dr. Zeus Salazar (Ang Babaylan sa Kasaysyan ng Pilipinas 1999) who have unearthed and analyzed data about the enigmatic...
by Omehra | Jul 20, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Kapwa and Other Indigenous and Filipino Values
Alicia Magos wrote the important book, The Enduring Ma-Aram Tradition: An Ethnography of a Kinaray-A Village in Antique. Ma-aram is another word for Babaylan. Her current research focuses on the Panay-Bukidnon indigenous traditions and practices. She continues to be a...
