What if… we were created by our creators in their own image and likeness, just as we create characters in our computer games, in our own image and likeness? The phrase “as above, so below” makes a lot more sense if we think in this way. This kind of thinking made me rethink how I…
Tag: history
Nefertiti’s Elongated Head
Nefertiti is one of the more interesting figures in Egyptian history. She may be the second most popular woman in Egyptian history, second only to Cleopatra. The image people most often associate with Nefertiti is probably this bust, now housed in the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany.
I am Austronesian
In school, we Filipinos were taught we were descendants of seafarers from Malaysia and Indonesia. They came to the islands in boats and later occupied lowlands forcing the aborigines to the mountains. This made sense because majority of Filipinos do share similarities with Indonesians and Malaysians. Recent research though show a different story. It’s the…
Ancient Filipino Script
Most foreigners would ask me if the Philippines has it’s own system of writing like how the Chinese have the Kanjis and how the Koreans have the Hanggul. This would be my typical answer. We do and we call it Baybayin (some call it Alibata)! But when the Spaniards came and colonized the Philippines, they…
Humans Are All Immigrants
This may not be emphasized well enough in our History Books but the Philippines is definitely a country of immigrants, just like Canada, the USA and most every other country in the world. This is my version of the Philippines and World History. First Immigrants The first people of the Philippines came during the first…