A year or two ago, a tsunami hit the coast of China. A couple of months after, Rev. Tom Honey gave his thoughts about the role of a god in a world of tsunamis, wars and disasters at the TED conference. Though his delivery can sound like a church sermon (he's a reverend after all...), the points he made reflect much of the core beliefs (or lack thereof) of The Bathala Project. And with Typhoon Ondoy and the recent tsunami destruction, this powerful speech has regained its relevance to bring up a question and point that have eternally beckoned us all.
Baybayin (aka Alibata) is an ancient script used by the native Filipinos, pre-dating Spanish Colonization. The Bathala Project utilizes this bold rhetoric in its artwork in an effort to proliferate the cultural knowledge and significance of this dead script... Among other things.
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