00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862196954 Buklod 20200906010535.0 g||| | || || ta 200905s2016 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00037796916 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-058 Bautista, Julius author. When one's birthday opens up a cosmological Pandora's box Julius Bautista. 2016. pages 227-230 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 230). 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's personhood is intuitively located not at conception but at the point in which we emerge into the world, when we take our first breath and attain independent physical viability. Birthdays. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 64, No. 2 (June 2016), p. 227-230. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 Available for the University of the Philippines Baguio via Project Muse. (viewed 08 September 2020) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-058 Analytics