🕯️🙏🏽🕯️ As families across the Philippines gather at cemeteries today, I wanted to reshare this video on our Day of the Dead traditions and their precolonial roots.
From Ilocano 'atang' to Kapampangan 'daun' to Visayan 'kalag-kalag,' these practices go back thousands of years. One of my favorite details: the parol we associate with Christmas actually began as lanterns to guide ancestral spirits during daun.
How is your family observing today? I'd love to hear about your traditions.
Kirby Araullo (Historian)
🕯️🙏🏽🕯️ As families across the Philippines gather at cemeteries today, I wanted to reshare this video on our Day of the Dead traditions and their precolonial roots.
From Ilocano 'atang' to Kapampangan 'daun' to Visayan 'kalag-kalag,' these practices go back thousands of years. One of my favorite details: the parol we associate with Christmas actually began as lanterns to guide ancestral spirits during daun.
How is your family observing today? I'd love to hear about your traditions.
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