About
↳ WRITER || ANIMIST || POLYTHEIST || CULTURAL ADVOCATE || EDUCATOR || BATOK APPRENTICE
Ligaya Caballes, is known for her works in the Filipino online community on educating and sharing information on the culture, history, and pre-colonial beliefs of the Philippines for over 10 years. She has run several popular blogs, including the 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐲-𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 and 𝐃𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐧 blogs on Tumblr. She is also known through both her Instagram and TikTok accounts, discussing and making videos and infographic posts on our pre-colonial history, culture, and folklore.
She is a Filipino-American woman from New York of 𝐀𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧 and 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠 descent. She is also an Animist and Polytheist, practicing and reviving the pre-colonial beliefs and practices of the Philippines, in particular of the Tagalog and Bisaya. She has been a Pagan for more than 20 years and has been practicing the pre-colonial beliefs and practices of her ancestors for 15 years.
Ligaya is currently in the works of writing her first book geared toward reviving these Animistic and Polytheistic beliefs amongst various e-books. While she isn’t writing or researching, she is also a photographer, focusing on Filipino cultural heritage portraits, with emphasis on the pre-colonial fashions of the Philippines. Ligaya is also currently studying as a Filipino traditional handtapped tattoo practicioner under her teacher, Manong Lane Wilcken, at the Katao School of Living Traditions.
She is the founder of The Tao Kollective, a new non-profit organization supported through community. The Tao Kollective’s mission, is to provide accessibility for Filipinos interested in learning more about their history and culture by having access to books, academic journals and papers, and cultural objects, both online and in person. The goal of The Tao Kollective is to provide these resources for the Filipino community, both in the diaspora and the Philippines, as well as to one day establish a Filipino Cultural Center, Library, and Museum in the United States.
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This blog is dedicated to the ancestors, the spirits of the land, the rich and diverse history and cultures of the Philippines, and to her people.
May we continue to seek out the knowledge and to learn more about who we are, our histories, identities, and stories. And upon learning these histories, folklore, and culture for ourselves, may we continue to teach and pass them on to the next and future generations.
Salamat for reading!
Ligaya Caballes