Hail Mary prayer

April 26, 2009 by Christian

This beautiful looking tattoo (She looks like Reese Witherspoon) is the Hail Mary prayer in Baybayin. The translation was probably sourced from the “1st” book printed in the Philippines, the Doctrina Christiana in 1593. Some say that’s when Baybayin was used as a tool to control us and therefore inappropriate as a “tribute” tattoo unless your OK with being a conquered people. What do you think?

By Pete’s on Earth

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PS: Sorry for the sparse updates. I’ve been busy preparing for the Spring/Summer Filipino Festival tour here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have a couple of new products in store. Additionally, I’m in the process of hiring a blogging assistant.

Filed under: Baybayin, Girls
Tagged: bible, colonia, hail mary, prayer, sexy, shoulder

Comments

8 Responses to “Hail Mary prayer”

Kenny on May 28th, 2009 7:28 pm

wow thats a really nice tattoo
if anyone could find out how i could get this design,
would be very appricaited
Akean on June 6th, 2009 8:59 pm

You know, I think one of the things that holds us back is this dwelling on being colonial subject and being a “conquered people”. Why not celebrate the fact that despite the fact the Spanish and Americans came and conquered, we were able to take elements of those cultures and make them their own? Why not celebrate the fact that had the Doctrina NOT been printed in baybayin, that evidence of the Tagalog and Ilocano styles would have been LOST. The Spaniards could have easily “hidden” the fact that our people had a writing system before the Latin alphabet became widespread, and we’d have only known about it once it was discovered that the Tagbanwa, and Mangyan had their own systems.

Let’s face it we wouldn’t be who we are today if we had not been conquered. All of the elements of Filipino culture we like ARE from being a conquered people. We should celebrate our diversity no mater how negative parts of our past are. Where we’ve been decides who we are, we can’t divorce ourselves from it, and regretting our past only holds us back.
d.soco on June 24th, 2009 7:00 pm

that is a crazy tattoo…and whats even crazier is that this girl looks like my ex-fiancee…kinda trippy…
Teresa on October 11th, 2009 10:20 pm

I reaaaaaaallllyy love this tattoo and want it for my own! But I can’t figure out the text…can anyone help me on this PLEASE?!?!
Angelica on November 17th, 2009 8:23 pm

hey i love this tattoo..i have been thinking about getting the our father in alibata writting as well. i just need a good translation into the text,, like i’ve tried on eaglescorner, but im not sure if that’s accurate. help please!
Nora on December 18th, 2009 4:11 pm

I love this tattoo. Can someone please contact me on how to get this design?
g b on February 19th, 2010 6:09 pm

i think its ok…. what happened hundreds of years ago is out of our control!! i mean without that history we wouldn’t be here presently … was it wrong to be conquered and all that negative stuff by the portuguese and spain yes but doesn’t that make us who we are today!! where else did our families pray… i see your perspective of contradiction but if your only thinking about the tatooits amazing!! and she looks happy with it… thats the great thing about tatoos its an expression of ourselves and what we believe in or etc.
Angeline on February 23rd, 2010 7:13 pm

hello, i really love this tattoo and am thinking of getting it. but i need someone to help me out by giving me the design please contact me at pnaiixbebe@aol.com

thanks!