Hail Mary prayer

April 26th, 2009 | Published in Baybayin, Girls | 16 Comments

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?

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Kenny

wow thats a really nice tattoo
if anyone could find out how i could get this design,
would be very appricaited
Akean

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

that is a crazy tattoo…and whats even crazier is that this girl looks like my ex-fiancee…kinda trippy…
Teresa

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

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

I love this tattoo. Can someone please contact me on how to get this design?
g b

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

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!
Julia Protzmann

ich würde mich wirklich freuen wenn man mir dieses tattoo übersetzen kann und mir irgendwie helfen kann wie ich dieses als vorlage bekomme. es ist echt klasse und fasziniert mich sehr!!
mfg Jule
karynn

i would like this tatoo zoomed in so i can get the same on my back would some one find me the orginal so i can take it in to the tattoo artist so i could also get this done
Elaine

At first the meaning of the tattoo is bit disturbing, but then I realized that this is me. I am of Spanish decent, but my blood bleeds true Pinay. If it wasn’t for my Spanish great grandfather (who was a priest -scandalous, I know) I and my family would not exist. I like the good and the bad existing in scripture and think it tells the story of my life. Where can I get this Doctrina Cristiana? I will gladly pay. I am leaving for Pinas next Saturday (May 22nd) & think it would be worthwhile to get the tattoo in my mother country.
dianne

hi…i really love that tattoo…i want to have one..can somebody tell where i can get that designs?i want to have our father in baybayin..
im a filipina and also in abroad..so proud of it..please…
Megan

I really like it but what is that larger character on the left?

http://www.baybayin.com Christian Cabuay

It’s an “A”

Flabhing

Hey, I would appreciate if you could delete this picture. I’m the one on it and Pete didn’t allow you to use it on your website. Plus, this is a prayer for my mom in which there is a few verse from the Hail Mary Prayer. So it wouldnt make any sense if anyone else made this same tattoo. And it isn’t an A but a K on the left, for my mom’s name. Anyway, would be nice if you could delete it. Thank you.

http://www.baybayin.com Christian Cabuay

Have him change the license rights on Flickr. It was on Creative Commons share-a-like an it will be then taken down. Pls advise one updated. Thanks

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