On Tuesday the 9th we started out with Mary telling us her narrative of what her cultural identity is. She said it was her PURPLE Wallice-she pronounces it in a different dialect. A "wallice" is a stick sweep and surprisingly it works just as good as a vaccum from my standpoint. It reminds her of her grandparents because she grew up with them. She learned many life values from them that impacts her today. Do you know what a barangay is? Barangays are everywhere from organize groups, your group of friends, basically your whole squad you hang out with. Essentially a barangay is a clan, or a tribe. In Indigenous precolonial times the Indio Filipino's would usually have a male chief (Datu) and the female head chief the (Babaylan). So before the Spanish came they already had government! Balangay is a boat, so in order to trade, explore, and journey in their Barangay they would use the ocean to their advantage. Transitioning to bayanihan, it is when your barangay or the community helps each other through the spirit of Kapwa and camaraderie. Since there where typhoon and floods, the bahay Kubo (hut on bamboo sticks) the community would help each other move the house to a more safer and comfortable area. Wow, imagine all that walking and selflessness! Honestly, I would be hella lazy. But learning these terms helps me think about how to treat my very own Barangay's in life. Do you believe in super natural stuff? For instance my family, when we first moved in our new house there where quarters at every corner window frame. Because my mom said its good luck. Or when my grandmother would open all the windows in the house during New Year's, to let out all the bad energy or spirits of last year. It's the notion of Animism; The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe. That brings me to the term Bathala' , means that their is spirit and life in everything. Historically it's like faith in a Filipino description. That we are made together not separately, but we are conjoined to one another. Bathala's brief summary that i know is that we're dropped by a Filipino eagle from 1 bamboo stick and we where split in half. Their is many significant symbolism that we can go in depth, ultimately its the belief that you and me have a shared identity and that everything has spirit and life.
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