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Baybayin Alive
August 28, 2009 by Christian Cabuay · 3 Comments
Perla Daly recently started a blog called Baybayin Alive discussing the idea that the script has deeper meaning.
I just recently started this blog which will be dedicated to sharing some of the deeper meanings of various baybayin symbols. Some meanings are quite old. Other interpretations are new. But it remains that the archetypal meanings of symbols can be timeless.
If you have the ability to think metaphorically or like an indigenous person, you can better come to understand the hidden meanings of the baybayin. You can readily develop the ability if you are open. This can be a small awakening, steps towards pagbabalikloob and decolonization
An interesting post is about the Ba character and how it relates to women. One source of these ideas is from G.E. Tolentino’s book, “Ang Wika at ang Baybaying Tagalog” in 1937. In it, he describes the whole alphabet the the supposed meanings.
Baybayin (incorrectly known as Alibata) is a pre-Filipino writing system from the islands known as the "Philippines". This site is run by Christian Cabuay who also runs 
Hi Chris:
Thanks for posting. Here is an excerpt from the intro of the blog:
“Pedro Paterno’s El Cristianismo en la antigua civilization tagalog(1892) and a 1972 article by Guillermo Tolentino, A National Artist could easily be cited as the originators of the various deeper meanings of the baybayin because they wrote and published these concepts first. But, many writers of the first books of age-old epics or folks songs are not necessarily the originators or owners of the common known oral traditions of their times.
That said, the deeper meanings of baybayin could very well have existed in times way beyond than when they were written about and they could have been widespread among Filipinos and not just the ponderings of only the men who first wrote about them.”
i was wanting to know how “living life” would look in Baybayin?
check out the Ebru TV interview of Baybayin artist Ameurfina Nazario. Click on:
Blank Canvas, 1/05Nazario and Zubeide at the following link:
http://www.ebru.tv/en/p.fullepisode.html?prg_id=156%C2%A0
She interprets the deeper significance of various names, including Bathala and America, and words, by rendering them in baybayin and then interpreting the forms’ various meanings through an artist’s subjective eye. Fascinating and fun.