{"id":1540,"date":"2017-08-15T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T01:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2017-10-02T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:31:02","slug":"logographing-magtipan-at-kaanyuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Logographing Magtipan at Kaanyuan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exploratory study with Baybayin script calligraphy: logographing “magtipan” (covenant, \u170b\u1706\u1712\u1709) (\u00a9 2017 Henry Del Rosario)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Baybayin script calligraphy: logographing “kaanyuan” (creation, condition of being, form; \u1703\u1700\u170c\u1713\u1700) (\u00a9 2017 Henry Del Rosario)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ambahan about old age<\/h2>\n

As I research more about Baybayin script (ancient Filipino script) I come across more and more Filipino poetry. I am currently praising this poem about old age (Ambahan number 237 from Postma’s “Treasure of a Minority”):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Hanunoo-Mangyan:<\/strong><\/td>\nTagalog:<\/strong><\/td>\nEnglish (Antoon Postma’s translation):<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katpungan pagsudungan
\nKita una magkaban
\nBabaw apnig bariwan
\nSaruray no humagan
\nKiblagan yi kuramwan
\nSulbadan yi suudan
\nMagkabta araw uman
\nPamidkan dimlisig wan
\nPatlay saghaya yi man<\/td>\n		Sa sandaling karimlan
\nKahit kita magtipan
\nSa banig na higaan
\nPagsikat nitong araw
\nTalang maghihiwalay;
\nBuklod nati’y bibigay;
\nPagkikita’y daratal
\nPaningi’y mapawi man
\nMay bagong kaanyuan.<\/td>\n		At this hour of the dark night
\nwe are still together now
\non the woven sleeping-mat.
\nBut when the sun rises soon,
\nand the stars become detached,
\nour bond might break up too.
\nWhen we’ll ever meet again,
\nit is not with mortal eyes,
\nbut the eye-sight of the soul.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

An ambahan is an indigineous Filipino poetic form of heptasyllable lines. Ambahans may be difficult to translate due to the constricting poetic form, dialect, and allegorical imagery. As in my previous post, I mentioned that there were a few very fascinating words of this poem in Tagalog:<\/p>\n