THE PRECOLONIAL FILIPINOS It is a popular belief that the ancestors of the modern-day Filipinos had a poor sense of unity across the archipelago. And this becomes a convenient excuse […]

TATTOO PRACTITIONERS IN THE VISAYAS Patik is the most familiar preconquest Filipino word for “tattoo”. It is a Visayan term that means “to strike, mark, or print”. And it was […]

THE PRECOLONIAL BABAYLANS If other countries have druids, shamans, wizards, or sorcerers, the Philippines has the babaylans. And the precolonial babaylans played important roles in the olden times, for they […]