When one's birthday opens up a cosmological Pandora's box
The common way of inquiring about someone's birthday in Binisaya is to ask, kanus-a ka na tawo? - literally, when did you become a person? It is an intriguing feature of the Visayan worldview, one that may well be rooted in an ancient cosmological order, that the quintessential stage of one...
| Published in: | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 64, No. 2 (June 2016), p. 227-230. |
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