LOREN LEGARDA: Dayaw Season 9 Episode 2 - “Anting-Anting" (A Secret Spirituality) — Transcript

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1. 0:18[Music]
2. 0:30a
3. 0:32flag an
4. 0:36amulet an illustration from a
5. 0:39manuscript a burial
6. 0:43jar a piece of
7. 0:48bone more than just objects in a museum
8. 0:51or a history book these speak to us
9. 0:53today perhaps more urgently than in
10. 0:57times of their
11. 0:58Creation in this season Dao explores the
12. 1:02objects and manuscripts that form a
13. 1:07puzzle one that challenges our own
14. 1:10conceptions of who we are and what our
15. 1:13purpose as a nation is all our Vital
16. 1:16clues in our continuing search for our
17. 1:20knowledge our pride
18. 1:25[Music]
19. 1:30so you know I
20. 1:32[Music]
21. 1:34didn't in March of 2018 the prestigious
22. 1:39K bran Lee Museum in Paris opened an
23. 1:42exhibition of the Philippine anting
24. 1:44anting the amulets and medallions that
25. 1:48for some Filipinos are still sources of
26. 1:51power and
27. 1:53[Music]
28. 1:56protection the exhibit examined the
29. 1:59unique deep-seated spirituality that
30. 2:01resulted when our animist beliefs melded
31. 2:05with
32. 2:07Catholicism through film clips
33. 2:09photographs archival footage and actual
34. 2:12medallions this first ever International
35. 2:15exhibition focused on the anting anting
36. 2:18as an indigenous response to
37. 2:23colonialism to many modern Filipinos
38. 2:26these charms and talismans are mere folk
39. 2:28superstition
40. 2:30[Music]
41. 2:32the image of supernatural abilities and
42. 2:34invincibility no doubt bolstered by the
43. 2:37films of the late Ramon Ria
44. 2:41senior in these movies we see a
45. 2:44Celluloid fantasy of the UN an as a
46. 2:47source of power that often is used for
47. 2:50purposes far from
48. 2:53Noble is this what the anting anting
49. 2:56truly promises its Believers or are
50. 2:58there deeper more spiritual values that
51. 3:01these medallions and handkerchiefs
52. 3:04promised
53. 3:05Believers how do these objects connect
54. 3:07our forefathers to a self that was
55. 3:10nobler and stronger a self that was in
56. 3:13ways they could be proud of
57. 3:16[Music]
58. 3:21Filipino as objects the anting are
59. 3:24medallions of brass copper or sacred
60. 3:27wood cast or carved with images of
61. 3:30dieties known only to the serious
62. 3:34devotees others bear the images of
63. 3:37Catholic saints and Angels the Virgin
64. 3:40the nazareno the sanino and the Holy
65. 3:44[Music]
66. 3:47Trinity handkerchiefs inscribed with
67. 3:50images are also another form of anting
68. 3:54anting common to both Medallion and
69. 3:56handkerchiefs are the mysterious letters
70. 3:59anagrams and phrases known as theal
71. 4:02often derived from Latin
72. 4:05prayers these are the incantations that
73. 4:07will empower the object when recited
74. 4:11[Music]
75. 4:14regularly say an an thing and you will
76. 4:16still be pointed to the side streets
77. 4:19around the kapo church here vendors sell
78. 4:22newly made amulets from Batangas and
79. 4:27cabit the Stalls and the wear sold in
80. 4:29the very shadow of Philippine
81. 4:31catholicism's most famous Church Point
82. 4:34to the unique syncretic nature of these
83. 4:40[Music]
84. 4:48Talis Michael haval luas who served as
85. 4:51researcher and assistant curator for the
86. 4:54Paris exhibition has had a longstanding
87. 4:57fascination with the an an
88. 5:00[Music]
89. 5:28an
90. 5:58for
91. 6:20[Music]
92. 6:28for for
93. 6:50[Music]
94. 7:21[Music]
95. 7:28B for
96. 7:45[Music]
97. 8:14for serious Believers in the anting
98. 8:16anting owning a powerful medal does not
99. 8:19begin and end when one buys one in kapo
100. 8:23the process of empowering The Medallion
101. 8:26demands much more than just purchase
102. 8:29physical fortitude sacrifice a communion
103. 8:33with nature at its most
104. 8:35sacred these are all asked from
105. 8:38Believers and it begins with a trip to
106. 8:40the sacred mountain of
107. 8:47banaha at the foot of the mountain we
108. 8:50met with Carver Rodell
109. 8:54basilio his pieces are carved from a
110. 8:57sacred wood called digo
111. 8:59which for many Believers is a more
112. 9:01potent material for their
113. 9:06[Music]
114. 9:08talismans his story traces a
115. 9:10transformation from a skilled commercial
116. 9:13Artisan to a Believer who skills now
117. 9:16serve a deeper purpose
118. 9:20[Music]
119. 9:46[Music]
120. 9:58m
121. 10:25for three
122. 10:28times
123. 10:55fore Rodell turned his back on life in
124. 10:58the city stayed in
125. 11:06B
126. 11:09[Music]
127. 11:28fore for
128. 11:44[Music]
129. 12:00okay
130. 12:27[Music]
131. 12:30the pilgrims who buy his amulets are
132. 12:33only taking the first step towards the
133. 12:35realization of the amulets
134. 12:37power the journey through baha's holy
135. 12:40places sanctifies not only their anting
136. 12:43anting but their very being as well
137. 13:05SES our lady
138. 13:28ofor
139. 13:41for S Lu
140. 14:28B for
141. 15:19the landscape of banaha the
142. 15:21all-encompassing presence of nature
143. 15:23brings to mind the presence of the mag
144. 15:27Supreme Being the infinito dios the
145. 15:30prehispanic Bala a diety who created the
146. 15:34universe and all the spirits and Saints
147. 15:37even the Holy Trinity of
148. 15:44crrom his story is seen in The Medallion
149. 15:47popularly known as the
150. 15:50infin the Bala hidden in
151. 15:54stone the design of this Medallion is
152. 15:57one of the oldest of the unthink
153. 15:59and unlike other motifs which feature
154. 16:03Catholic saints The infino Medallion is
155. 16:06uniquely
156. 16:07Filipino it also tells an intriguing
157. 16:15story an ancient god who allows himself
158. 16:18to be baptized by his own
159. 16:20creation but will only let the tip of
160. 16:23his finger be subjected to the Catholic
161. 16:25right a clue surely to the hidden
162. 16:28animism that still pervades our faith
163. 16:33[Music]
164. 16:46[Applause]
165. 16:53today Dennis vagos is a professor of
166. 16:56history and anthropology with the Ken
167. 16:59interest in the social
168. 17:01[Music]
169. 17:05sciences his book you shall be as Gods
170. 17:09examines the anting anting as a social
171. 17:11phenomenon as an instrument of
172. 17:14empowerment for many Filipinos who
173. 17:16sought Justice and
174. 17:20freedom Messianic calls um date back up
175. 17:25um to the 19th century as early as 1840s
176. 17:30mearian Cur one of these was the um
177. 17:35Cadia de San Jose founded by apolinario
178. 17:38DEA Cruz or known as hermano
179. 17:41P well they use anting anting in the
180. 17:44sense that they used portraits and the
181. 17:47relics of
182. 17:48saints uh to protect them against um
183. 17:52harm and against evil and uh they became
184. 17:56so
185. 17:57controversial that they Spanish
186. 17:59government the Spanish colonial
187. 18:01government were was alarmed because uh
188. 18:04they were uh you know banding together
189. 18:08with the purpose of uh establishing a
190. 18:10new religion which is uh uh not really
191. 18:14in conflict with the Catholic church but
192. 18:17uh founded by Filipinos so therefore it
193. 18:21was more or less like a the start of a
194. 18:24nationalist movement to uh remove itself
195. 18:27from the church from the Catholic church
196. 18:29so par it's like they were trying to
197. 18:32establish a Filipino Catholic church so
198. 18:35it's not really against Catholicism but
199. 18:37it's not really um a movement to uh
200. 18:43Drive Away Catholicism from the
201. 18:45Philippines but to have Catholicism
202. 18:49adopted by Filipinos in their own brand
203. 18:52of faith and belief so therefore the use
204. 18:55of anting anting by this group is
205. 18:58already a Filipino element because even
206. 19:02before the coming of the Spaniards the
207. 19:04Filipinos were already believing in
208. 19:06amulets and objects of power so
209. 19:10therefore uh the use of anting anting by
210. 19:12the kradia headed by hermano p is a
211. 19:16totally different uh religious
212. 19:20approach because by that time they were
213. 19:23already
214. 19:25synthesizing uh the belief of the uh
215. 19:29Catholic to the uh with the belief of
216. 19:31the local religion which is uh uh folk
217. 19:36Catholicism and also it uh it's like a a
218. 19:41recurring theme in Philippine social
219. 19:43history um for example in
220. 19:471930s there was a um sista movement
221. 19:52which also use anting anting against the
222. 19:56colonial government and also so in
223. 20:001967 there was a very uh uh
224. 20:04controversial group called The payang
225. 20:06Malaya headed by Valentine Doos Santos
226. 20:09from Bol who used also anting anting to
227. 20:14overthrow the Marcos government it is a
228. 20:17very populist uh uh in nature when you
229. 20:23say populist it means uh it became a
230. 20:27driving force of the mass
231. 20:29to band together to fight against a a
232. 20:34common enemy for
233. 20:36example the use of anting
234. 20:39anting by uh the Filipinos throughout
235. 20:43history from from the Spanish period up
236. 20:45to the present time is a revitalizing
237. 20:49factor which means that it is a it is a
238. 20:54unifying Factor the belief in a powerful
239. 20:58object or powerful objects is a
240. 21:02universal revitalizing Factor wherein
241. 21:07there is a symbol the an anting be
242. 21:10became a symbol the symbol to un unify
243. 21:14themselves against a common enemy so
244. 21:18therefore the anting anting is not only
245. 21:20an object but at as a popular symbol of
246. 21:23power of struggle against a common enemy
247. 21:31for Dennis the popular present day
248. 21:33notion of the an an thing as a quick
249. 21:35means to success or notoriety is a
250. 21:39shallow one it does not do justice to
251. 21:41the inherent spirituality that our
252. 21:44forefathers imbued in their
253. 21:46talismans when I dug deep into the an
254. 21:51an phenomenon it occurred to me that
255. 21:55there was more to the
256. 21:56belief than winning girls or winning
257. 22:00Lotto or protecting yourself against uh
258. 22:04hold doers there's more to that it's
259. 22:06like a religion in itself it's it's more
260. 22:11like you have god with you uh you can
261. 22:15contain God within a medallion or within
262. 22:17a scapular so therefore if we talk about
263. 22:21an thing an thing we are not talking
264. 22:23about objects of faith alone but objects
265. 22:26of power that can sustain our our
266. 22:29existence that can sustain
267. 22:37ourselves to contain God in medal and to
268. 22:41have that God with you in a way that is
269. 22:44both powerful and very
270. 22:48personal as a symbol of our history and
271. 22:51culture the Anan thing speaks for the
272. 22:53Filipinos who have been most
273. 22:55marginalized and oppressed
274. 22:58in these medallions we see the common
275. 23:00Filipinos desire for a society that is
276. 23:03just fair and
277. 23:06[Music]
278. 23:07God-fearing we see also their ultimate
279. 23:11goal more than protection or power or
280. 23:14success it
281. 23:16was that these Talisman offered the
282. 23:20return to our trer and better selves
283. 23:25[Music]
284. 23:31this is Lauren legarda hoping always to
285. 23:35be guided by da or knowledge or Pride
286. 23:41[Music]
287. 23:47[Music]
288. 23:58he
289. 24:04[Music]