You Really Dont Understand How Much Im In Love With This As Someone Who Devotes Every Waking Minute In

You really don’t understand how much I’m in love with this as someone who devotes every waking minute in researching on our precolonial history and our indigenous selves.

Kalooban: Oneness of the Filipin@ Soul in Dance

This was a presentation at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Theater from November 9-10, just a couple of days ago, on the dances of our ancestors, chronicled by Antonio Pigafetta, a historian who traveled with Ferdinand Magellan.

In 1521 when Magellan arrived on the shores of Homonhon (an island in the province of Eastern Samar) then to Cebu, he met the people who were covered in gold jewelry, ornaments, and tattoo’s. They fed him and his men with an abundance of food, which even till this day is a trait among Filipin@’s of feeding ones guests in a matter of a feast. They fed them, showed them hospitality, and danced, recited stories and epics, and played music for them. Unfortunately, their way of life, their dances, their music, would soon by forgotten and erased from their lives as Magellan, then followed by Ruy López de Villalobos and Miguel López de Legazpi, brought on the eventual 333 years of Spanish colonization.

However despite what happened, Pigafetta managed to record what he saw on their dances and music, chronicling them into written form, a preservation of what was lost to us after the years of colonization.

In the performance, the Kaloob Philippine Music and Dance Ministry revives and relives the stories of our ancestors, on our dances, music, and clothing during the 16th century, based on the written accounts of Pigafetta.

Not only do they perform the old dances and music, but they also perform other traditional dances we know of and perform today such as the tinikling and singkil.

The purpose is not only to tell the written accounts of our ancestors to the public through theater, but also as a way of national identity, unity, and a call back to our indigenous selves.

Man I can’t wait for this wedding, I was never this happy and excited for a wedding… not even for my cousin’s. Is this ok?

Iridescent clouds, looking like a rainbow in the clouds.

A diffraction phenomenon caused by small water droplets or small ice crystals individually scattering light. Larger ice crystals do not produce iridescence, but can cause halos, a different phenomenon.

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RUE

[verb]

1. to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly. 

2. to wish that (something) had never been done, taken place, etc.

3. to feel sorrow, repentance, or regret. 

[noun] 

4. sorrow; repentance; regret. 

5. pity or compassion.

Etymology: from Middle English ruen, rewen, Old English hrēowan; cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen; (noun) Middle English rewe, reowe,Old English hrēow; cognate with Dutch rouw, German Reue.

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