023: Back from the CROCODILE'S BELLY, Ch.2 - "Anting-Anting: Why Bathala Hides Inside the Stone"
Description
In the second chapter of our current read: "Back from the Crodile's Belly", we have a conversation about Anting-Anting.
In her two year long research, Nenita Pambid Domingo sought to answer the question of whatever happened to the native God of the FIlipinos when the Spanish Catholic God and its host of angels vanquished the “heathens” and their gods?
Her research led her to the myth of Doctrine of Infinito Dios (or Infinite God) telling how the Three Persons in One God struggled against the Infinito Dios also known as Nuno (or ancestor). The Nuno said he could not be by any means be baptized by Jesus since the Nuno is Jesus’ forefather, the First and the only God who holds all the power and the well-spring of all the forces in the universe. In the end, the Infinito Dios (aka Nuno) finally succumbed to the wishes of Jesus, but only through his own power. And that was how Nuno, the ancestor, had supposedly come to be baptized, but actually not.
This myth and the oraciones (or power words) were put into symbols in the extant Infinito Dios amulet also known as an anting-anting.
Tune in as we talk about how the anting-anting evolved into a symbol of sovereign agency, fighting for freedom, and defending the motherland.
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(approximate timings):
1. Grounding Prayer & @ 3min, 33 sec
2. "90 second DECOLONIZING" Check-in @ 5min, 30 sec
3. Brown Girl Cliff Notes @ 13 min, 20 sec
4. Vocabulary Words @ 19 min
5. Quotes @ 31 min
6. Closing Prayer @ @ 45 min, 30 sec
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