diwatahan:Going through my photos of the gold artifacts from the Philippin Gold Exhibit in NYC and
diwatahan: Going through my photos of the gold artifacts from the Philippin Gold Exhibit in NYC and something that caught my eye was these human like figures in what I believe were gold tassles. But on the designs it is different from other human like figures seen elsewhere such as the petroglyphs of that of Angono and other images. This one unlike the others I have seen has what it looks like horns on the head. Is it a representation of a deity? There is another image in one of the tassles that have the same carving of the horned human figure that quite frankly I don’t know what it represents. It looks like a crop growing, like a rice plant actually, though it could be something else but to me the structure looks very similar to rice stalks. Maybe the figure represents a deity for harvest and fertility? Or perhaps it might represent a babaylan as we do have a written account by Fr. Mateo Sanchez depicting a paganito, a ritual, from Cebu. In the account he describes the babaylan as “…an old woman wearing a headdress, topped by a pair of horns…”. Whatever the case, I find these human like figures very interesting. -- source link